Drawing in Excel - 1

This is a the first of a series of posts describing how to produce scale drawings in Excel, based on a list of coordinates. This post will cover the use of XY graphs, or scatter charts as Microsoft likes to call them. Later posts will cover the use of the various line and shape objects, [...]

Section Properties UDF and UDF charting

The technique for calculating section properties from coordinates is conveniently coded into a UDF:
Function Area(xy_range As Variant) As Double
Dim XYcells As Variant
Dim N As Long, NumX As Long
Dim XD As Double, YSum As Double
XYcells = GetArray(xy_range)
NumX = UBound(XYcells, 1) - LBound(XYcells, 1) + 1
If NumX < 3 Then
 XYcells = Transpose1(XYcells)
NumX = UBound(XYcells, 1) - LBound(XYcells, [...]