https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/187023/ram-ss-orthogonal-effect-with-redundancy-factorHi, I have a building with two orthogonal braced frame intersecting, which makes one of the column forms both lateral system in the orthogonal direction. Per ASCE 7-10, section 12.5.3.a, Orthogonal Combination Procedure shall apply (see figure 1 belowen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/548915?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:26:15 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6850ce48-3aa9-4190-a515-d91985ee4820Jian Xiao<p>Hi Seth,</p> <p>Thanks so much for your quick response and this is exactly what we are planning to do in the&nbsp;next stage.</p> <p>A little suggestion is that if the redundancy factor can be automatically incorporated in the load case or the orthogonal factor can be applied in the load combo would greatly help with these situations. Manually altering all load combo defies the intention of having auto generation of load combos, which is a great advantage in the Bentley RAM SS, especially with hundreds of load cases.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks again!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/548907?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:59:48 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:93451be1-f60e-45fa-9862-6c47f025cf51Seth Guthrie<p>Our default approach is to apply the 1X+0.3Y cases as a separate load cases (at angles), but it can only have one load factor. The alternative is to have loads in the X and Y only, but then generate custom load combos to get the combined forces at the desired angles. You can generate these as custom combinations and then adjust the factors as desired where the rho factor varies.&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>