May 12, 2010

Let’s Customize Your RISA Toolbar

The customizable toolbar is a new feature in RISAFloor. It’s really useful and you may have overlooked it. You’ll find all of your familiar buttons as well some new buttons which make reviewing your model and results easier.

One of the most popular new buttons in RISA-3D is the Show Deflected Diagram button , which allows you to display the deflected shape with or without the deflected shadow.

To setup your own toolbar just go to the Tools menu and select Customize Toolbar:

Select each of the buttons by clicking in the Available toolbar buttons box, and then click Add to place them on the Current toolbar buttons box:

You can rearrange the toolbar by highlighting each button and clicking on the Move Up or Move Down buttons.

Tags: RISAFloor, RISA-2D, RISAFoundation, New

August 10, 2023 | RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation, Excel

RISA | Exporting Results Spreadsheets to Excel

Do you need to include your RISA results into your Excel spreadsheet? Directly export result spreadsheets from RISAFloor, RISA-3D, and RISAFoundation. RISA-3D & RISAFoundation STEP 1: Right Click and click Export to Excel option. STEP 2: Choose if you want to export the current spreadsheet tab or all tabs. STEP 3: Select Excel file name and file save location and export. ALTERNATE METHOD: You can also choose Export to Excel from RISA’s ribbon or File options. See below how to use this method in RISAFloor…

April 8, 2015 | RISAFloor ES, New, Drawing

How can I transfer my slab design from RISAFloor ES onto drawings?

The ability of RISAFloor ES to design rebar for two way concrete slabs is powerful. Such designs are made much more powerful when they can easily be conveyed on construction drawings. In the example below, the East-West bottom bars are displayed. A single bar symbol is shown at the middle of the design strip, with an arrow shows the extent of where the bars need to be placed. Once the design is complete, go to the File Menu and choose Export DXF File. A DXF File is then created for each floor of the building. This file can be opened in any CAD software such as Autodesk AutoCAD or Bentley Microstation. Each rebar group (East-West, North-South, Top, Bottom) is placed on a separate layer in this drawing:…

August 18, 2011 | RISA-3D, Loads, RISAFloor, RISA-2D, New

Using Projected Loads in RISA-3D

RISA-3D, RISA-2D and RISAFloor have the capability to project distributed and area loads onto members. Consider the case of snow load on two buildings: one with a flat roof and one with a sloped roof. Ignoring the concept of shedding, if both buildings have the same footprint then they should both have the same total weight of snow applied to them. This is because the snow doesn’t care what the shape of a building is as it falls. The same total amount of snow will fall on a given acre regardless of what’s on it. Below is an image illustrating roof rafters from both the sloped and flat roof beams. In both cases a vertical snow load of 100 lbs/ft has been applied in the global Y direction. Note that the total end reaction on the sloped rafter is 1.41k versus only 1.00k for the flat rafter. This is because the sloped rafter is actually 14.1 ft long, and we have applied the load as 100 lbs per linear foot of rafter. In order to get the correct behavior for snow we need to project the load onto the horizontal plane. The image below shows the same members, but with…