RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 Beta Notes
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Recommendations:
This release is a beta version of RAM Concept and has not undergone the full quality assurance and verification process carried out on official SELECT releases. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that use of RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 Beta be limited to evaluation and not used on projects.
Installation Instructions:
RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 can be installed side-by-side with previous release versions of Concept. There is no need to uninstall previous release versions.
New Features in RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 Beta
In addition to minor error corrections and enhancements, RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 Beta has the new features discussed below.
User Transverse Reinforcement
This release includes user defined transverse reinforcement. The user may now place transverse reinforcement and convert program transverse reinforcement to user reinforcement. In past versions of the software, transverse reinforcement was created only by the program and was done so during the design routines only if determined to be required for fulfillment of code provisions.
User transverse reinforcement, as with user concentrated and distributed reinforcement, is compatible with the Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) framework. User transverse reinforcement is among the objects that are transferred to an ISM model when creating or updating an ISM model from RAM Concept. In addition, shear reinforcement objects in an ISM model (such as rectangle parallel rebar), are transferred into RAM Concept when creating a RAM Concept model from an ISM repository.
A wiki on the user transverse reinforcement feature is available on Be Communities at the following link:
ISM Substructure Interoperability
The ISM interoperability in RAM Concept has been enhanced to incorporate the substructure identifier in the latest version of ISM. When creating an ISM repository in RAM Concept, or when updating an ISM repository from RAM Concept, the user may now specify a substructure with which the selected geometry is to be associated.
Pre-Concept V8i Release 5.2 File Compatibility Warning:
RAM Concept V8i Release 5.2 Beta can read all previous file formats, but writes files in a format that cannot be read by previous versions.
It is strongly recommended that a copy of any existing files to be used in this beta version be made prior to use.