RAM Concept Help

About User and Program Reinforcement

There are two types of reinforcement bar: Program and User. All reinforcement is tagged (identified) as one type or the other.

When performing design calculations, RAM Concept generates Program reinforcement required in addition to any existing User reinforcement. In subsequent calculations, RAM Concept removes all of the Program reinforcement before starting the calculations.

You can change Program Concentrated Reinforcement to User Concentrated Reinforcement merely by changing its tag (in the object properties window). You might do this to modify RAM Concept 's design. When performing subsequent calculations, RAM Concept only designs reinforcement needed in addition to the reinforcement tagged as User.

You could also change "User" reinforcement to "Program" reinforcement, but this has no value since RAM Concept removes all existing program reinforcement when it generates new "Program" reinforcement.