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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    RAM needs to calculate embodied carbon!

    We are increasingly being asked to assess options on the basis of carbon intensity. It would save many engineers lots of time if RAM SS & RAM Concept had the capability of calculating embodied carbon. It is a very simple addition - it could be...
    Guest over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    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 almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM SS – Structural elements between levels

    Provide an option to connect elements for one level to the adjacent level other than columns
    Guest almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM SS Concrete Module - Add torsional design to Columns

    Add torsional design to concrete columns to meet ACI requirements for seismic design.
    Guest almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Account for wall transfer loads on one-way deck

    As far as I am aware, RSS does not track the load transfer when a wall is sitting on a one-way deck without a supporting beam or wall directly below. The loads from the wall above the deck is "lost". My firm does a lot of multi-family construction...
    Brian Genduso Genduso over 3 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Cancel Last Point

    The ability to cancel last point when drawing an area load, deck assignment or mat foundation like you can in RAM Concept. It's especially frustrating when drawing a mat foundation and you accidentally click the wrong point and have to start over ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Click and hold mouse wheel to drag and pan model like in Bluebeam, ETABS, SAP, RISA, or Autodesk.

    It would be useful so that we can accurately navigate the model. It is a real pain to navigate RAM as it is and it is much easier in competitors programs. Right now you click and hold the mouse wheel to navigate left and right but it is difficult ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

    3D Wind Load View

    It would be nice to be able to see the wind pressures on the 3D view of the building.
    Jaime Kafader over 3 years ago in  2 Needs review

    Concrete Column Slenderness Check to ACI 318

    When the bottom of the Column is a foundation and user elects to use Col forces from RAM Concept whereby no Concept forces/moments and therefore RSS will use RAM Conc Analysis(for Col bottom forces and those moments are always negative), for a lac...
    Guest about 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM SS - Tapered Columns & Beams

    Add a Tapered Column and Beam design options to all of RAM SS modules
    Guest almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review