Geometric Compatibility
When a SidePlate® connection is assigned to a lateral beam, the beam and column must be geometrically compatible.
If the column flange is less than the beam flange plus geometric
compatibility limit (proprietary information available in the SidePlate ®
table), the program gives an error:
The beam and column sizes are not compatible for SidePlate connection at Node n. Contact SidePlate to confirm.
Also, if data for the combination of the beam size and
column size is not found in the
RAMSidePlate.sp2 file, the program gives an error:
No SidePlate data is available for the beam size assigned at Node n. Assign a size that is acceptable for the SidePlate connection.