RAM Structural System Help

Process menu

Menu Item Description


Design All
Select to design all steel beams and joists. This size will all beams which have not been previously sized by the Beam Design module.


View/Update
Prompts you to select a member and then opens the View/Update Beam dialog, which is used to interactively design or investigate a single steel beam or joist.


Design Colors
Opens the Color Scale dialog, which is used to display the beams in the model color coded based on the interaction or deflection values.
Freeze Design > Single To "freeze", or make user-specified size, the design of a selected steel beam.
Note: The program treats frozen beams like a user-assigned size.
Fence To "freeze", or make user-specified sizes, all steel beam designs within a specified fenced area.
All To "freeze", or make user-specified sizes, all steel beam designs.
Clear Designs > Single To clear the design (studs, camber, etc.) from a selected beam, but leave the user-specified size, if any.
Fence To clear the design (studs, camber, etc.) from all beams within a specified fenced area, but leave the user-specified sizes, if any.
All To clear the design (studs, camber, etc.) from all beams, but leave the user-specified sizes, if any.
Clear Sizes > Single To clear a user-specified size from a selected steel beam or joist.
Fence To clear user-specified sizes from all beams and joists designs within a specified fenced area.
All To clear user-specified sizes from all beam and joist designs.
Export To SBeam Used to select a beam to export to RAM SBeam.
Export Deck > CMF Deck Select CMF Deck type and area to export.