There are times when members on one story don't properly align with members on other stories, even though they are supposed to. This is particularly common when data has been imported into RAM Structural System from another program. The Align Members dialog is designed to help in these situations. The Align Members dialog is accessed either via Integrity - Align - Columns or Integrity - Align - Walls. If the former is used, Modeler prompts for a column to be selected. If the latter is used, Modeler prompts for a wall to be selected and then one end of the wall to be selected. The selected point is used as the initial reference point for the Align Members dialog.

The dialog contains a number of tables. The top table matches whatever was selected to enter the dialog (either walls or columns). The middle of the dialog contains a set of tabs with other member types: grids, columns or walls, beams, and foundations. At the top of the dialog is a tolerance (which can be edited by the user). Each table contains all the members on of the given type on all stories no more than that distance away from the reference point, along with the initial member selected to enter the dialog, even if it isn't close enough. The initially selected member is shown in bold. All members on the same floor type as it are shown in italics.

The reference point is shown in the bottom right of the dialog. The X and Y coordinates can be edited by manually entering new coordinates in the text fields, or by double clicking on any of the entries in any of the tables. Each table contains a Distance column that shows the distance from the given member to the reference point.

To align members, all the members that need to be updated should be checked by the user, then the Align button pushed. The Align button will only be enabled when at least one member is checked that is a non-zero distance from the reference point. Only columns, walls, and foundations can be aligned. However, since framed members are automatically pulled along with aligned members, other members (such as beams) will automatically be updated as well. If a beam isn't close enough to an existing support to get pulled along with it, then the beam must be updated manually using the Move Beam command. Grids cannot be updated in the Align Members dialog due to the fact that even though only the grid intersection is shown in the dialog, the grids actually extend outward from there, and updating one intersection also updates everything that attaches to the grid lines involved in the intersection.