I d/l to 3 1/2" floppy , tried MS Excell to open--got gibererish-- what do
you use
to open it with?? Jerry

Michael Rainey wrote:

I've updated my original freeware calculator into something pretty
nice, and still free.

My "canned" description:

ME Weights 2.1 is a material weight calculator which combines power
with ease of use. Designed to calculate the volume and weight of any
combination of fifteen basic shapes and a large variety of materials
commonly used in manufacturing and construction.

Shapes include:
hexagonal, octagonal, rectangular, square, and round solid bar
round, square, and rectangular tubing
sphere, hollow sphere, pyramid, cone, cone frustum (truncated cone),
and spherical cap

Square and rectangular solid stock may also have external corner radii
defined. Square and rectangular tubing may have internal and/or
external radii defined. This allows for the calculation of a large
number of "custom" shapes.

The user identifies the material, then selects and dimensions the
shape. There is a substantial built-in material density database, or
a user-defined value may be input. Dimensional data can be input as
any combination of inches, feet, millimeters, and meters. Output can
be in U.S. or metric units.

Input may be numerical or in the form of an expression - 1.500 or 1
1/2 or 1+1/2 or 1+(1/2) or (1+1/2), among others.

The program is a single 200k file which is installed simply by copying
it to a directory of your choice. It does not modify your registry.

Screenshot, showing examples of U.S. and metric output, at:

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/s/rsnmar/MEWeights21.gif

Download the program:

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/s/rsnmar/MEWeights21.zip

Hope somebody finds it useful.

Mike Rainey