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    Opening a workbook at a specific worksheet

    G'day, I need to open a workbook at a specific sheet each time but don't want the hassle of making sure I return to the face sheet and save the file before I close it. Is there any format such as: filename, sheetname that I can use? regards SC
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    Autocad Hyperlink to open excel at a specific sheet

    G'day, Does anyone know if you can open a specific worksheet in an excel workbook using the hyperlink function of Autocad? If not does anyone know how I can achieve this through other means? Regards SC
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    Steel plate design

    I am looking at a steel plate (2 plates flat to each other) design that has loading along the plane of the plates via a hook shape (in-plane) at each end and hold points at the middle. It is also loaded perpendicular to the plane at approximately mid span. Just to make things a bit harder one...
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    Effect of cobble to bolder sized rock on clay swell

    Having never really dealt with clays with rock inclusions that vary from cobble sized to boulder sized (but <1.00m) I thought I would ask the experts. The clay fills all voids and is moist (all year round) and is a basaltic clay. Does the inclusion of these rocks (basalt) with a volume of...
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    Site Classification fees in Australia

    I have already posted this in the foundations forum, but though I would post here as well for some varied feedback. With the recent increases in geotech PI Insurance costs and excesses (mine has increased by 50% and the excess by 250%) and building regulation requirements for providing PI Ins...
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    Site Classification fees in Australia

    With the recent increases in geotech PI Insurance costs and excesses (mine has increased by 50% and the excess by 250%) and building regulation requirements for providing PI Ins cover for long periods, should fees be drastically increased to cover these costs? I know that fees for site...
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    Trimming multiple objects

    Not sure if anyone has talked about this before, but anyway, I have just found a very useful aspect of the trim command. A way to trim more than one object at a time, it is the fence option. To use it: 1. Trim - enter 2. select trim lines - enter 3. enter &quot;f&quot; 4. select a start point...
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    Rigid base plate design

    G'day, Just in need of a decent reference for the design of rigid base plates for hot rolled sections. All of the standard design guides avaoid the issue on cost basis, however I have to design one. Do I simply do a standard design with additional bolting outside of the column area and apply a...
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    Steel/Gyprock Fire Rating

    G'day, Well I've come up against a problem that doesn't seem to have a direct answer. I am designing a steel SHS column to support a concrete tilt panel wall (laterally). The wall is supported at the top by timber trusses and bracing and at the base by the standard dowel and pad footing setup...
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    Liability and ethics, Government vs private

    Four words on government agency staff in general, &quot;All care no responsibility&quot; This may not seem fair or true, but at the end of the day who usually ends up wearing the court costs and guilt? Who am I to state this? a person who has worked both in local government (close association...
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    Colusive Tendering

    I recently had the unenviable happen, I approached a fellow engineer with the offer of tendering jointly on some structural and civil design. We worked on the tender together with my company taking the lead role due to greater expertice in the area required. We submitted the bid in my name with...
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    Road Safety Audits

    G'day all, I have added road safety auditor consulting to my practice and would like to get some opinions as to how other road design/construction engineers feel about road safety audits and whether or not they have a positive impact on improving road design. The reason I ask is that I have...
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    WIND LOADS

    G'day, I've just come across something that I don't normally have to deal with. I have a client who proposes to construct a building with a trapezoid floor plan (18m long with 17m at the larger end and with the small end 6.50m). The relevant Australian standard deals with rectangular floor...
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    Concrete Column Interaction Diagrams

    G'day, I am hoping some one can help me. I would like to create or obtain a spread sheet for drawing reinforce concrete column interaction diagrams in Excel. I have created a rough version, but cannot work out how to get the graphing function to draw a best fit line graph/curve for my data...
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    Column Interaction Diagrams in Excel

    G'day, I am hoping some one can help me. I would like to create or obtain a spread sheet for drawing reinforce concrete column interaction diagrams in Excel. I have created a rough version, but cannot work out how to get the graphing function to draw a best fit line graph/curve for my data...
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    INSERT TEXT INTO DWG

    G'day, I would like to insert formatted text (tabbed, lines, etc) into a dwg. I would prefer it if it could be done directly from word as it is a parts reference table that I would like to insert. I can recall having done this in the past, but I can't for the life of me remember how. Any...
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    Drawing Limits in LDD

    G'day, Does anyone know if there are upper limits to drawing sizes in LDD? I am currently working on a project that has a drawing size of 6Mb + all of the grading, volumes and survey info. Until the drawing size reached 6Mb I did not have any problems, but now it appears that whenever I try to...
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    Image display in autocad 2000i (os = windows xp)

    G'day all, Well I've come across a little problem with displaying raster images. I can insert the image, I can scale the image, I can look at the images properties, but I can't see the image unless I select the frame. This is a major problem as I need to see the image to align it with the...
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    Slab on Grade - Design methods

    G'day all, The questions posed are in relation to residentail/domestic house slabs. For a while now I have been supplying clients with slab designs based on &quot;collapse&quot; of support under the slab, without a lot of consideration for heaving of the soil. This is not normally a major...
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    EXCEL NUMBER DISPLAY

    G'day all. I've got a bit of a problem with excel and numbers. When I enter a number without a decimal Excel automatically divides it by ten. eg: enter: 15 displays as and calculates as: 1.5 but if I enter: 15.0 it displays as and calculates as: 15 Anyone got...

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