The spreadsheet was created by another engineer who used company computer and time to create these spreasheet. He left the company, without unlock the spreadsheet.
I did not plan to buy excel speadsheet. I did not plan to spend another 8 hour on reinvent the same spreadshet. I thought spreadsheet is just like another word document free to shear and not mean to invold any legal, ethic or cheating.
From: Drew Morris <dmorris@bbfm.com>
To: seaint@seaint.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:42:14 AM
Subject: Re: Excel Sheet for Free Standing Frame IBC 2006 Chapter 15
It sounds like the locked spreadsheet is demo only showing what it looks like. If purchased, I assume the spreadsheet author would have sent a password/unlock key or something of this sort. Since this was not done, it appears that someone is trying to get something for free.
Richard Calvert wrote:
I know of a legal, well known program that will open excel files without any security – but I'm reluctant to share here… does anyone know whether I would be in violation of any rules or laws if I did share?
From: ken ng [mailto:zy7up@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:58 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Excel Sheet for Free Standing Frame IBC 2006 Chapter 15
I have small free standing platform. I found an Excel sheet to calculate seismic base shear base on IBC 2003, chapter 9. But some one installed a lock. Therefore, no change or edit is allowed even the text.
Can some one share an Excel copy that not lock.
TIA