RAM Structural System Ideas

Welcome to the RAM Structural System Ideas portal. The purpose of this site is to post ideas for enhancements and new features. We value your feedback and our team regularly reviews your suggestions for consideration in future releases.

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Unbalanced Snow Loads on Cantilevers

I am wondering if there has been any progress on implementing 50% unbalanced snow loads for cantilevers. In a forum post from 2020, Seth Guthrie said that it was on the backlog ( https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum...
Guest 11 months ago in  0 Needs review

Allow for user input of base plate dimensions.

It would be very useful to be able to input width and/or length of base plate dimensions. If width is input, length would be optimized or if length is input, width would be optimized, or if both dimensions were input it would do code checks based ...
Guest 11 months ago in  0 Needs review

Option to define beam unbraced length

Add the ability to explicitly define the flange bracing points or unbraced length for beam top and bottom flanges. Currently the program options are limited to only specify whether or not the deck provides flange bracing, but for structures withou...
Guest 12 months ago in  1 Needs review

Shear Wall Design Groups and Reinforcement gets deleted if I change f'c or stiffness modifiers or thicknesses.

Please revise shear wall module to not automatically delete sections cuts, groups, wall reinforcing, etc. when I change f'c, wall stiffness modifiers, or thicknesses.
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS – Finite Element Analysis

Change RAM SS from a “matrix softening” analysis to a Finite Element (FEM) analysis app.
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Will not implement

RAM SS – Structural elements between levels

Provide an option to connect elements for one level to the adjacent level other than columns
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS – Steel Beam Module, SP Joists

Add feature to create a DFX file and/or Revit file for Special Joist (SP) designs to add to the design documents.
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS - Progressive Collapse

Add a Progressive Collapse Module to RAM SS
Guest about 1 year ago in  2 Planned

RAM SS - Tapered Columns & Beams

Add a Tapered Column and Beam design options to all of RAM SS modules
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS Reports

Add a feature to allow for varying report detail levels. Short, medium, and long very detailed reports.
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review