View/Update
View/Update allows you to view the program's automated design of the beam or joist. It also allows you to modify that design as desired.
Issuing the View/Update command causes the target cursor to appear. Click the target cursor on a beam or joist to cause the View/Update Beam dialog box to appear. This dialog box displays the present beam design, optimized or user-specified, and allows you to investigate other designs. New designs can be saved to the database or discarded.
The header contains information about the beam you are viewing including: the building code being used, the floor type from which the beam was selected, the beam number, the span length, the beam coordinates and the deck orientation relative to the beam. The Fy value and composite flag used in the design are displayed.
- For beams that do not have a user-assigned size or a user-specified design, the optimized beam size is highlighted in the Beam Size box. If the beam was designed compositely, the optimized stud configuration is also displayed.
- For beams that have a user-assigned size from RAM Modeler, the user assigned size is highlighted in the Beam Size box. If the beam was designed compositely, the stud configuration displayed is that which was optimized based on the user-assigned size.
- For beams that have user-specified design from a previously executed View/Update command , the user-specified design will be displayed.
If Web Openings have been assigned to the beam, the web opening data is displayed at the bottom of the dialog box.
Dialog Controls
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Optimize | Click to automatically design the beam using the newly selected Fy, Composite Flag, or other design criteria. |
| Analyze | Clicking the Analyze Button will cause the stress criteria and deflection criteria checks to be run on the selected beam. If the member fails either check, a message will appear warning you of the failure. |
| View Results | Clicking the View Results Button will cause the Results Window to appear, showing a full display for the design of the beam or joist. You may scroll through this Window to observe the actual design of the member based on the currently selected parameters. Clicking the Close button will return control to the View/Update Beam dialog box. To print this report for the given beam use the Beam Design Print - Single command. Print commands are also available to print this report for various groups of beams. |
| View Detailed Results | Clicking the View Detailed Results Button will cause the Detailed Results Window to appear, showing a full display for the design of the C-Beam™. For castellated C-Beam, checks for each post and hole are reported for beam configurations of dt with the minimum, maximum and controlling cases of e, and with the minimum and maximum phi. A similar report is available for cellular C-Beam. You may scroll through this Window to observe the actual design of the member based on the currently selected parameters. Clicking the Close button will return control to the View/Update Beam dialog box. To print this report for the given beam use the Beam Design Print - Single command. |
| View Loads | Clicking the View Loads button will cause the Load Diagram of the beam to be displayed. The header includes information that identifies the building code being used, the floor type from which the beam was selected, the beam number and beam coordinates. Below the load diagram, the load information is listed including: deal load, positive live load, negative live load, and maximum total load. To print the load diagram for a given beam, use the Reports - Load Diagram command. |
| View Diagrams | For beams, clicking the View Diagrams Button will cause the Shear, Moment, Deflection window to appear. You may observe the shear, moment and deflection diagrams for the Dead Load, Maximum Positive Load, and Maximum Negative Load by marking the appropriate option boxes. By default, all three loading conditions are shown. Except for AISC ASD, the shear and moment diagrams are based on factored loads (e.g. 1.4DL or 1.2DL + 1.6LL for LRFD, etc.). Note that Maximum Positive refers to that loading (skip load) which will result in the maximum positive moment (e.g. live load only on the center span, not cantilevers). Maximum Negative load refers to that loading (skip load) which will result in the maximum negative moment. Moving the cursor through the Display Window will cause the shear, moments and deflections at any point on the beam to be shown. Selecting the Print Button will cause the Diagrams to be printed. Selecting the Cancel Button will cause the Shear, Moment, Deflections Window to disappear and will return control to the View/Update Beam dialog box. For joists and C-Beam, the deflection diagrams are not available |
| Update Database | The Update Data Base button allows you to save a new design back to the database. If a new beam design was selected using the Optimize command, this design will be saved to the database but will not be marked as a user assigned size. If the new beam design was selected using the Analyze command, this design will be saved to the database and WILL be marked as a user assigned size. This design will remain in the database until it is cleared with the Layout - Beam - Clear Size command in the RAM Modeler or a new design is generated through the View/Update command in the beam design module (using either Optimize or Analyze) and is saved to the database. |
| Cancel | Clicking Cancel returns you to the Beam Design module without making changes to the database. The target cursor will still be visible indicating that you are still using the View/Update command. You can either click on a beam to continue the View/Update process or select another command from the menu bar, terminating the View/Update command. |