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2 HORIZONTAL BRACING CONNECTING TO BEAM

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over 1 year ago in RAM Connection 1 Needs review

Add weld checks for haunch end to beam and along the beam

For connections with haunch beams, add the possibility to select the type of transversal weld, and checks for the longitudinal weld. Ref feature (PBI) #1728459
5 months ago in RAM Connection 0 Needs review

Tendons Shop drawing chairs

Adding tendons shop drawing chairs (each 1m or any distance specified by the user) will be very effective and useful for users and for bentley, all other softwares for PT design have now tendons shop drawing this will make a big disadvantage for r...
about 4 years ago in RAM Concept 3 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...
about 3 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

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.
about 4 years ago in RAM Structural System 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 ...
about 4 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

Allow construction grids to be converted to primary grids or provide new primary grid tools

Pretty self explanatory. Allow the user to convert a construction grid to a primary gird element. Grids are constantly changing throughout the design process due to requirements for columns to shift/etc. The tools for modifying primary grid system...
almost 2 years ago in RAM Structural System 2 Future consideration

Allow to design double angle or single angle connection design. Within vertical truss, or as beam to beam connections

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over 2 years ago in RAM Connection 3 Already exists

Include plan generation when adding Load Combinations with the API

Being able to create custom load combos using the API would be extremely useful if there was an option to specify which plans to generate along with each combo (stress, force, deflection, reactions, soil bearing). Having to create the plans manual...
almost 2 years ago in RAM Concept 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in RAM Structural System 0 Planned