I just tried using the export option in RAM SS and was able to export the data to Excel easily enough, but it doesn't seem that beam reactions (something that would be incredibly useful to be able to export, sort, and filter) are in the items available to export. Am I missing something here? If not, is there a workaround for getting the reactions out of RAM SS other than the DXF export, Floor Map, or the report? I'd prefer to get the data into Excel so I could quickly sort it into the max reactions for each beam depth.
Are you talking about gravity beam reactions to supporting members or the Ram Frame analysis, base nodal reactions?
The SQL Export does not have Ram Steel Beam results yet. For gravity beam reactions there are the reports you mentioned, and also the Connection Check report in Ram Steel beam to use. Reports can be output in text format (.csv files).
Or you can pull the data out using Ram DataAccess.
Yes, gravity beam reactions is what I was hoping to extract. RAM DataAccess looks powerful, but also probably more involved than my long-outdated programing knowledge could keep up with. The Reaction Summary report has the info I need, and I can read a csv file into Excel to sort it by beam size, but with the 2-line output per beam with the 2nd line not having the beam size, I would have to go through adding that info to every other line in the report before it would sort correctly. I'll just continue looking through the DXF's and/or Reaction Summary report for now, but I would encourage adding beam results to the SQL Export. That appears to be a pretty straightforward interface from what I saw yesterday; it just needs more data to be really useful for us. Thanks.
Noted (Enhancement 1024871: SQLite report generator - add data for steel gravity beam reactions)
I assume you prefer unfactored, uncombined results.
Answer Verified By: Jason McCool
The option to get the uncombined reactions or max combined would be nice, but I could always generate combined reactions in Excel from the load combo factors. For this particular project, the combined, factored reactions is what I was after. Thanks!