No Warnings on Beam Failure?

Is anybody else having any issues with the RSS v15.01 not flagging beams that fail in the beam module until you actually click on them with the View/Update command? I've had several failing bending and delfection, but it didn't provide a warning message about them failing, or highlight them when I used View Beams with Warnings. Then when I clicked on a particular moment frame beam with View/Update, it showed the error messages that it had failed both bending and deflection.

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  • I see now, I missed that these were the lateral beams in your first post. This is the intended behavior. We allow you to drill in and check the lateral beams with the Ram Steel Beam design process, but since this does not account for end fixity, the presence of braces or lateral loads, we don't provide warnings for those members in the design-all process or summary reports. What you can do is use Process - Design Colors and toggle on the Frame beams option to scan for any failures in the lateral beams.



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  • Thanks! I was hoping to not have to go all the way through Beam/Column/Frame Analysis/Code Check just to find out a beam had failed the gravity beam check. But thanks for telling me about the Design Colors option. I never knew that was there. I had actually wondered if there was a function in the Beam module similar to the colored stress ratios that come up automatically in RAM Frame after running the Code Check. That's very helpful.