Skip to Main Content
Need Support? Let’s guide you to the right answer or agent.
ADD A NEW IDEA

RAM Elements

Masonry Wall Module - Save to network locations

In a ticket with Bentley Support, we were told that saving a Masonry Wall (*.msw) file directly to a network location is not a supported or recommended workflow. At the moment, when we create a new file and try to "save as" to a network location, ...
3 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Enhance the temperature loads interaction with P-delta analysis

This idea is submitted on behalf of Chris Murphy, from Murphy Consulting Engineers The current temperature loads implementation can lead to situations where a model that doesn't exhibit any possible cause for instabilities or large second-order ef...
about 2 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Allow load-area gravity (downward) loads to use projected length on sloped members.

Enhancement submitted on behalf of Jason McCool. CS0726453 - PBI PRODUCT BACKLOG ITEM 2120346: The enhancement will let gravity (downward) area loads be distributed over the projected length on sloped members, matching the behavior already availab...
about 2 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Ram Elements - Hot key for Deflection Scale adjustment in deformed shape view

Hi, My suggestion is on the back of posting within the forum https://bentleysystems.service-now.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=fde7707647004bd8d5d91098c26d4325&anchor=answer_b18d72f247880f10557fd8de536d43d9 My suggestion is to ...
6 months ago in RAM Elements 1 Future consideration

Include equations and references for demands/capacities for things like sliding resistance, etc, in Ram Elements footing module, similar to Ram Connection.

It would be very appropriate to include equations for demand/capacities in the report for things like sliding resistance, moment, shear, etc. For example, for sliding resistance, the passive equation, the cohesion equation, and the coefficient of ...
over 1 year ago in RAM Elements 0 Future consideration

Obtain the shear moment and axial stresses from SHELL-type finite elements of concrete walls.

As users of the RAM software and a company in the structural engineering sector, we would like to inform you that, to complement the service provided, we believe it is relevant to incorporate the following aspect into the results analysis. For the...
4 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Add 'round-trip' functionality for the Concrete Beam and Concrete Column design modules between modules and Elements base model.

The Concrete Beam Design module and the Concrete Column Design modules are not fully integrated with Elements with round-trip functionality. You can export geometry, loads, and selected design parameters from an Elements model to these modules, pe...
10 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Add a button to remove all loads from all load cases for selected members

No description provided
about 2 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Live Load Reduction Factor added to Design Parameters

Create a live load reduction factor in the design parameters for each material type. This way the live load is captured in the analysis and reduced accordingly in the design. This might cause an issue with 2nd order analysis if you don't want all ...
about 1 year ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

Add member description to output

For outputs, add the member description, not just the number
12 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Planned