How the RAM Structural System - RAM Concept link works

The key to the export of RAM Concept 's reactions to RSS are the imported walls and columns and the imported direct gravity loadings.

Walls and columns that you import from RSS have special RSS identifiers "tagged" to them. These identifiers allow RAM Concept to match its column and wall elements to the corresponding members in RSS. RAM Concept will even allow you to move the walls and columns slightly (up to 50mm or 2").

RAM Concept will not allow you to export if you add, delete, or significantly move imported columns or walls (or do not import walls and columns). RAM Concept does this to ensure transfer of the full equilibrium gravity load between RAM Concept and RSS.

Note: If you accidentally delete an imported support, or the supports change in RSS, you can always reimport the walls and columns.

RSS tracks a fixed set of gravity loadings through the structures. These loadings are Dead Load, Live Load Reducible, Live Load Unreducible, Live Load Storage and Live Load Roof (when RAM Concept and RAM Concrete are used the Hyperstatic loading is tracked as well). To ensure compatibility with RSS, RAM Concept will not allow you to delete these imported gravity loadings.

RAM Concept does allow you to modify the imported RSS gravity loading and to add more gravity loadings. RAM Concept assumes that you are fully aware that it considers only the loads that appear in the imported RSS loadings in the reactions it exports back to RSS.