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 Structural System

    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 almost 4 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 about 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

    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 11 months ago in  1 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 almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Wheel zoom should zoom into the spot that the cursor is at on the screen.

    When using the mouse wheel to zoom in or out, the screen should zoom in where the cursor is. RAM is the only software I have ever used that zooms in and out to a random, arbitrary, undefined point and it is very difficult to zoom in close to objec...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in  5 Future consideration

    Numerous Suggestions

    allow for snow and roof live loads in the same model more intuitiveness in the software to resolve small dimensional differences remove modules and allow layout and analysis to be performed in the same space create a better GUI interface for addin...
    Guest almost 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

    Change the way data is exported to CSV/Excel format

    Currently when the user exports data to CSV, it's basically a text version of the pdf data output. The organization of data is difficult to post-process because the data has page headers based on load cases and combinations (among other items). At...
    Joshua Few about 2 years ago in  2 Will not implement

    Option to see the gobal deflections in beams

    This could be a little complicated but would be extremely useful in cases where we have multiple transfers and we need to make sure the members have desirable global deflections in addition to local.
    Anil Tripathi about 4 years ago in  2 Future consideration

    Slab Penetration Layout - Adjustable View Box

    In RAM Modeler, the Layout>Slab>Slab Penetration Layout dialog box is not adjustable - it would be beneficial to be able to make this view different sizes when you work on a project with a large amount of slab penetrations. For example the a...
    Hunter Butler about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review