Does anyone else find it frustrating to move one end of a beam or wall in Ram Structural System and have intersecting framing (that you wanted to stay in place) skew over with the moved support? For instance, you delete out a short beam and stretch the next one over to span the entire distance, but now the intersecting beam skews over with it instead of continuing to frame in orthogonally. My suggestion would be to have a 3rd option for RAM to not try adjusting the secondary beams at all and let them stay the way they were placed. Just curious if it's just me or if anyone else would find that useful.
The main problem is that when moving a girder (or a column) we allow the girder to be moved such that it crosses the original position of supported beams, automatically shortening (or elongating) those beams as required. If we allowed "No adjustment" then moving a girder could result in crossing beams which would ultimately cause the framing tables process to fail.
What you can do rather than move the girder is delete it and then add a new one in place. That process does not change the supported beams at all.
Hmm, I wouldn't want framing table failures, but generally, the move command is faster than deleting and replacing a member (and typically redoing member sizes, fixity, and other properties to recreate the previous condition), so it would've been nice to be able to use that function more. Attached is another example where I need to add another braced frame on 1 side of the building, but I can't add a column with the wall in the way. Shortening the wall would be a nice simple way of making room for the new frame, but the program drags the existing adjacent frame over and skews the frame when moving the wall endpoint. Definitely not the desired result! I'll carry on with deleting and re-entering everything, but if y'all figure out a way to add that functionality, that'd be pretty handy. I use the move command a lot since y'all improved it a few years ago. https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/5932/2016_2D00_03_2D00_16_5F00_RAMFrame_5F00_Move.swf
Well, since you mention it... :-D
Maybe a little off-topic, but something else in the "nice" category would be if the measure distance tool worked in more areas like elevation views in the modeler, or any of the other modules, so you didn't have to go back to the modeler just to check the width of an opening or cantilever length, bay width, etc. Sometimes it's just handy to be able to quickly confirm a distance without getting out of what you're in.