RAM Structural System Help

Base Plates

Last updated: February 01, 2022

Base plates for gravity members are sized in RAM Steel Column Design. The engineer has the option to override the designed sized in RAM Foundation. If the engineer chooses to use the sizes from RAM Steel, then any changes in the base plate sizing that take place in RAM Steel will be reflected in RAM Foundation. If the engineer overrides the base plate size, this will be considered to be a user-defined size and will not be changed by RAM Steel until the user-defined flag is cleared using the Assign > Base Plate command. Once this flag has been cleared, RAM Steel will again size the base plates.