D. To assign member type attributes

To assign the member type to consider for steel connection design in the Connection Design workflow, use the following procedure.

The member type attribute is only used for steel connection design in RAM Connection. It has no effect for members of other materials or other workflows.

Note: This procedure only affects the member type used for connection design. To assign a member as a truss type for analysis, you must use the Truss specification.

Select one or members that will share the same attribute.
Either:

on the Beam Tools ribbon tab, select the Add Attribute tool from the Plugins group

or
right-click and then select Add Member Attribute from the pop-up menu

The Member Attribute dialog opens.
Select MEMBTYPE from the Attribute Name drop-down list.
Select the most appropriate member type from the Attribute Value drop-down list.
- column
- primary beam
- brace
- rafter
- girt
- purlin
- eave-strut
- secondary-beam
- tertiary-beam
- chord
- branch
Click Apply.