As off now, RAM ignores the drop panel/thickening added locally when checking for punching shear.

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...

This will save time when checking typical base plate locations and identify when model/load changes affect the base plate acceptability.

Please, add an option to select members by section type or material.

There doesn't seem to be a way (at least not obvious) to add custom shapes and materials in the STAAD built-in Ram Connection. So if you have a custom connection like this then you must use the stand-alone. This is frustrating when you are using s...

In the Column module, you should be able to assign HSS Column series to be checked (such as HSS5X5, HSS6x6, HSS7x7) similar to how you can assign a specific Wx column series to be checked.

Add tapered beam and column design for design and/or evaluation of Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings. The MBMA design procedures would need to be added to RAM Elements.

A lot of the other programs have options to plot the interstory drift. RAM frame gives the numbers which need to be looked individually and can cause mistakes. An option to plot the max drifts or drift at a certain point over the story height will...