At certain points during the design process, it may be desirable to "Freeze" the design of some or all of the beams. Doing so allows the user to archive completed designs or to perform what-if type investigations without having the software re-optimize and potentially modify the member sizes or shear stud configuration.

Designs may be frozen by selecting the Process – Freeze – All, Process – Freeze – Fence, or Process – Freeze – Single commands. Freezing a design on a member is similar to setting a User Size in that the program will never re-optimize the design unless the User clears the design.

Members that have had their design Frozen or members that were previously assigned User Sizes in the RAM Modeler or in the View/Update can be cleared by selecting the Process – Clear Sizes – All, Process – Clear Sizes – Fence, or Process – Clear Sizes – Single commands. After designs are cleared, upon the next design the program will again perform an optimized design on all cleared members. Note that the Process – Clear Sizes – Single command will clear the size from a Frame beam, but Process – Clear Sizes – All and Process – Clear Sizes – Fence will not clear the sizes from Frame beams.

In some cases it is desirable to clear the design of the studs, camber or web opening but to keep the assigned beam size. This can be done by selecting one of the Process – Clear Designs commands. When this command has been invoked the program will subsequently use the user-specified size but will optimize the studs, camber and web opening design.