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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    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 about 4 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Flexibility in modifying the tributary height for Wind Load exposure for buildings with varying levels of diaphragms

    RAM wind load currently gets applied taking the trib height as half the difference between the two levels. It would be tremendously useful if there was an option to modify the trib height, thereby playing with full height or partial height exposur...
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 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 about 4 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Make selection tolerance for column larger

    I'm completing a column design in RAM Structural System and need to update a number of columns. However, it seems like the clickable area for a column to select it is incredibly small. I have to try to select the column multiple times (which takes...
    Guest 8 months 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 almost 4 years ago in  2 Needs review

    RAM SS-Option to turn off transverse beams bracing the bottom flange of support member

    Similar to RAMS beam, I'd like an option to globally or individually turn off the bottom flange bracing of beams framing into a support member in the Gravity module. This is somewhat taken care of in the lateral frame module, where you can assign ...
    Jared Ganstine Ganstine about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Ability to move end points of Line Load

    Similar to having handles on area loads, the ability to graphically move line (and point) loads would be really really helpful.
    Tim Liebhold about 4 years ago in  0 Planned

    RAM SS - Tapered Columns & Beams

    Add a Tapered Column and Beam design options to all of RAM SS modules
    Guest over 3 years ago in  0 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 over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review