This module designs of all your steel gravity columns and base plates. Tributary loading, including the effects of pattern loading is automated and the columns are checked not only for axial loading but for the effects of connection eccentricity as well. With the addition of sloping columns to the modeler the RAM Steel Column program automatically divides the vertical gravity loads based on vertical angles and designs all columns based upon column line dependencies. The Steel Column module and the Steel Beam module are always licensed together and are sometimes referred to simply as RAM Steel. The steel column design loads are the contribution from the loads in the one-way decking areas only