RAM Structural System Help

Layout - Beams - Assign Rigid Links

Beam rigid links connect the ends of beams to a support point in another location. They are intended to allow modeling where beams don't meet their support points with matching centers.

Click Add/Change to add new rigid links or change existing ones.

  1. Select a beam as prompted.
  2. Select a beam end as prompted.
  3. Select the support point for the rigid link as prompted, either by clicking on a snap point, or entering appropriate values in the Keyboard Mode Coordinate Entry dialog.

Click Delete - Single to delete rigid links one at a time.

  1. Select a beam as prompted.
  2. Select a beam end if prompted, and the rigid link will be deleted from that end of the beam. (If the beam only has one rigid link attached, it will be deleted without prompting for a beam end.)

Click Delete - Fence to delete multiple rigid links in a fenced area.

  1. Click and drag the mouse to fence in an area.
  2. All beams completely contained inside the fence rectangle will have all of their rigid links delete. Note: the fence region must fence in the beams that the links are connected to, and not necessarily the rigid links themselves.