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FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills. The Insider Skills - Special Interest Group series is offered weekly. STAAD is featured on week 3 of each month. The next STAAD session is June 20th. Please Note: STAAD Insider Skills will be…

FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills.  The Insider Skills - Special Interest Group series is offered weekly.  RAM  is featured on week 4 of each month. 

Join us Thursday July 24th!

Please Note:  

• • Starting in July we will change to Thursdays…

FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills.  The Insider Skills - Special Interest Group series is offered weekly and AutoPIPE  is featured on week 2 of each month . 

Next seminar is June 13th. 

 Please Note:  

• • Starting in July we will change to Thursdays…

FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills.  The Insider Skills -Special Interest Group is offered weekly and ProStructures is featured on week 1 of each month.

Our next seminar is June 6th.

Please Note:  

• ProStructures Insider Skills will be on Hiatus…

One of the newest features in RSS is Offsets and Rigid Links.  This feature has been in RSS since last year but is not being widely used.  Hopefully the Inside OUT of Offsets will give you the confidence to jump in and use them in your analysis.  (Based…

This week my department kicked off a series of weekly FREE Insider Skills Seminars geared to sharpen your skills.  These seminars will keep you up-to-date with new features, dig deeper into criteria, and can serve as an extension of our blog posts. 

 

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Technology is both a blessing and curse at times.  If you have been trying to access our blogs you may have found that our system was down for a few days.   During this down time the Bentley Learning Conference was in full swing. 

In the past Bentley has…

Today I am training some users in RAM Connection fundamentals so I thought why not blog about it as well.   Every time I talk about RAM Connection with users they always ask, "Does it check X for my desired connection?"  "Where can I find detailed…

Anyone who has looked at the Audit Cross Section Report knows that Concept calculates a ton of data for each cross section and each finite element.  The challenge is getting the information in a concise format for review.  You also know that Concept has…

Check out my latest blog on the Hidden Gems of RAM Structural System.  You will learn about a handful of tools that you might not even realize are there.  Check back often for more tips.

Ann Marie

In keeping with the essence of the spring holidays that are upon us, this blog will be light and fun and sprinkled with helpful hints.  Every piece of software has small little tools/features that often go undocumented and (unfortunately) unnoticed by…

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The most recent post will explain all the column stiffener options in RAM Connection.

I am interested in your questions or modeling conundrums.  Is there a feature you want to know more about…

When Clean Columns just can't be achieved, RAM Connection will design stiffener's for you with more options for stiffener geometry (v8.0). 

There are many different stiffener options throughout RAM Connection - beam stiffeners, columns stiffeners…

Have you been following the RAM Inside OUT by Ann Marie Garko-Hill, PE Blog?

Learn how to finalize your slab design for an RSS model,  use ISM for more than just integration, and shorten your time reviewing results in RAM Elements.

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Today I have an Inside OUT for two RAM Elements features (v13.0).  These are definitely smaller features but I bet you hadn't noticed their addition.  These will save you time when reviewing your results.

Story Drift Node Report

This new report will…

Designing Slabs in RAM Structural System (RSS) is now possible.   In RSS version 14.05 a slab design module was added. This module gives RSS the ability to design slabs using the power of RAM Concept.

This article has been updated for RSS version 14.07…

Every two weeks you will find a fresh and informative post on the blog:

RAM Inside OUT by Ann Marie Garko-Hill, PE

The lastest post will show you how to leverage ISM in tracking revisions of your analysis model. 

ISM is not just for integration.  Utilizing an ISM repository for your analysis project will allow you to manage changes, share information with team members, and query the model without the need for analysis software.  You can do all of this for free! 

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Hello.  I am Ann Marie Garko-Hill, a training consultant and application engineer with Bentley for over six years.  My expertise is with our structural analysis software and it's integration with BIM, particularly AECOsim Building Designer.  I consider…