Yes, please download..... illustratingshadows.xls from Illustrating Shadows and look at some of the subsheets. Use the insert chart feature in excel. Look at my h-dial-analemma worksheet which uses Cartesian coordinates creating the familiar figure of 8. Warning... aspect ratio is not preserved, that is why I also add two orthogonal lines as in "h dial" worksheet, so you can stretch or squeeze the chart until the lines intersect at 90 degrees. My web also has notes on messing with excel. Also consider Kingsoft. Caution with open office however because I once got malware from the official site, not detected by the virus checker I used back then, which was a top of the line. Simon
www illustratingshadows . com Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:46, Michael Ossipoff<email9648...@gmail.com> wrote: I mean, just using Excel, without using VBA. Michael Ossipoff On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Michael Ossipoff <email9648...@gmail.com> wrote: 1. I don't understand how a spreadsheet's rectangularly-arranged table of values is a problem for designing circular things. The values calculated and saved in that table can represent polar co-ordinates as well as anything else. 2. But here is my question that motivates this reply: Is it possible (without purchasing or downloading additional software) to print out graphics from Excel? ...to calculate, in Excel, co-ordinates of points along some curve, and then print-out the curve? ...useful for drawing a map, or a sundial, or any of lots of other things. Michael Ossipoff 2017-01-20 12:26 GMT-05:00 graham stapleton via sundial <sundial@uni-koeln.de>: Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: graham stapleton <manaeus2...@yahoo.co.uk> To: "sundial@uni-koeln.de" <sundial@uni-koeln.de> Cc: Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Circular Spreadsheet Software Is there any freeware (or at least inexpensive software) that can do in a circle that which Excel does in a quadilateral? Apart from variable numbers of radii and concentric circles, numbers and text need to appear in the circles. I've found something that does the first part, (albeit PDF) but not the latter. Thank you. ------------------------------ --------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mai lman/listinfo/sundial Links in the message | | Illustrating Shadows |
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