Enhancements

1. ANSI/AISC 360-10 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings.
2. ANSI/AISC 341-10 Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings
3. ANSI/AISC 358-10 with ANSI/AISC 358s1-11 Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications with 2011 Supp. No. 1
4. GB 50017-2003 Code for Design of Steel Structures.
5. Brand new and modern user interface for the Connection Pad.
6. RAM Connection for RAM Structural System can now be launched within RAM Manager.
7. Bentley Trust Licensing has been implemented. Thanks to Trust Licensing, users can always access the software they need to get their work done. It lets users access software whenever they need it, even if a license is not available.
8. Tapered columns are now allowed in base plate connections.
9. Flange plate connections now handle minor axis moments (M22) besides the major axis moment (M33).
10. Gusset plates keep their dimensions when switching from Automatic configuration to Manual.
11. European steel sections added to the database.
12. The assignment time

Resolved Issues

1. The MEP beam splice had a section depth validation problem that has been corrected.
2. There was a crash in certain instances when selecting the Results report for MEP with DG16 as some distances were not correctly initialized. This has been fixed.
3. The minimum cope depth in double angle connections was calculated to a greater value than the maximum cope depth, this occurs when the beam depth is too small to support the appropriate notches. A warning has been added when the cope dimensions are out of the standard practice.
4. The gusset length for CBB connections without a beam (“K” type) in the Manual option had a problem. This was solved and now the Manual option works correctly as well as the Automatic one.
5. In MEP connections, the thick plate behavior for the column flange was being printed in the wrong report section. The report was re-organized to have the end plate and column flange thick plate behavior checks together.
6. The distance from the connector to the top of the beam flange was miscalculated for gusset connections. The Data report now shows the location of the gusset connector relative to the beam top flange.
7. There was a problem in the base plate analysis for when no anchors were defined. The analysis now handles zero anchors.
8. Gusset base plates were being assigned to joints with braces framing from perpendicular directions. The braces have to be in the same plane (either X or Z) for this connection to work correctly. As this was not a valid joint, now this is not possible.
9. In some instances, different strength ratios were shown for thumbnail and the Design report in RAM Connection Standalone. This has been corrected.

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