• Structural Modeler V8i Automated Drawing Enhancements

    The new release of Structural Modeler V8i Selectseries 1 (08.11.07) adds many new features to support the automated creation of drawings from RAM Structural System models. These features have been added to the existing support for framing plans and framing…
  • RAM Connection Baseplate won't design

    I opened a fully analyzed .rss file in RAM Connection. I selected one of the foundation nodes for baseplate design. So far it has been running for 75 minutes and still has no design. Is this a program issue or a user issue.
  • Copes

    I'm having some troubles with the cope setting in XM. I've set the cope to 0 so am expecting the intersecting beam to cope around the main beam (in orange). But for some reason it copes the left edge ok but does something funn to the top. Cutting back…
  • Elemental stiffness matrix

    Hello, I built a simple truss model in Staad pro V8i. I am wondering whether there is a way to extract elemental stiffness matrix in global coordinate? I can access global stiffness matrix by enter SET PRINT STFFINESS in the basic solver. Is there any…