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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    Add Wall Thickness To Steel Column Trial Group

    Add wall thickness to steel column trial group.
    Guest 4 months ago in  1 Needs review

    RAM SS- Remove deflection failure report for cambered beams

    When the camber of a beam brings the deflection criteria within parameters, the option to turn off flagging them as failed in report would be greatly appreciated. In a large job with several repetitive floors with cambered beams, there can be hun...
    Jared Ganstine Ganstine about 4 years ago in  1 Already exists

    Fixed End Composite Beam Deflection In RAM Beam

    It would be very useful to be able to calculate the deflection of fixed-end composite beams in RAM Beam.
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Apply different % composite rules for different members

    We generally require a different minimum % composite for beams as opposed to girders. It would be beneficial to apply member specific rules, similar to how different deflection criteria is applied.
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Updating Cracked Factors in Ram Modeler should not delete wall design groups/section cuts/rebar assignments in RAM Concrete Wall

    Currently, if the user sets up wall designs in Ram Concrete Wall, updating the cracked factor in RAM Modeler deletes all Concrete Wall groups/section cuts/rebar assignments/etc stating that "the geometry of the wall was updated." This gets extreme...
    Joshua Few about 2 years ago in  1 Planned

    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 about 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Torsion Capacity Reporting

    See PRODUCT BACKLOG ITEM 1677993 In RAM Concrete Beam and Column, we report 0.75*Tn, which is actually 0.75*Tth (see ACI 318-19 22.7.4.1). I recommend using that notation in Concrete Beam and Column Design reports when ACI 318-14 or ACI318-19 is u...
    Guest 5 months ago in  0 Planned

    RAM SS-Foundations modeled/adjustments in Foundation Module

    It would be a time saver to not require reanalysis of the building for changing/adding a foundation element or their properties, by allowing modeling to be conducted in the foundation module.
    Jared Ganstine Ganstine about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Change Polygon Option for Mat Foundations

    Please add an option in RAM Modeler > Layout > Foundations > Mat > Geometry to "Change Polygon". Currently, the only option is to "Modify Coordinates". It would be much faster to have a GUI that lets users snap to grid or construction ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    export concrete column design forces

    Currently, the concrete column design forces report only shows dead and live loads, but I would like to get combination loads that may include wind, seismic, etc.
    Guest 5 months ago in  0 Needs review