https://communities.bentley.com/members/fca8ba34_2d00_4123_2d00_4b2d_2d00_b3ef_2d00_0bf35f619f38Recent activity for people in Kevin Wen's communityen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/239411/about-getmembersteeldesignratio-functionMon, 12 Dec 2022 00:55:42 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bf2638f4-2125-4529-8d25-abab78d17d70Kevin Wen<p>Hi,</p> <p>I need some help here.</p> <p>I am trying to do some automatic design by reading the utilization ratio from the results. I believe in Open Staad there is only one function called&nbsp;GetMemberSteelDesignRatio which returns a True or False value:</p> <p>GetMemberSteelDesignRatio(nBeam, rat), in which nBeam is Long and rat is Double</p> <p>The default allowable ratio is 1, and I wanna make it lower like 0.8 or something.</p> <p>But I tried changing the rat value in the function, and also the &quot;RATIO&quot; in design parameters, I suppose they didn&#39;t work, as the function returns TRUE everytime no matter how low I set the ratio value is.</p> <p>Please can you help me out with it? Many Thanks.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Kevin</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:55:43 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:7f13b0a8-09f6-42e0-89f0-694c3a85becdAsk a question in a forum.