October 8, 2018

RISA Completes Office Renovation

RISA recently completed renovations to their Foothill Ranch, CA office. The renovations include a new kitchen and coffee bar, new conference rooms and updated open office concept that allows various departments to easily work collaboratively together.

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July 5, 2018 | RISAFloor, Results, New

Viewing column information graphically in RISAFloor

RISAFloor column results are available in the results spreadsheets, but you may not be aware that you can also graphically review the input and results of columns. To do this you need to customize your toolbar, which is an option available in the Tools menu: Add the Column Input and Column Result buttons to your toolbar: The column input and column results buttons will now be available on your toolbar. Click the black drop down arrow to see which sizes were chosen during the member optimization (Design Results) or what the Code Check values are:…

October 30, 2020 | RISA-3D, RISAFoundation, New, Basic Load Case, v19, Loading, v13

Expanded Load Categories in RISA-3D and RISAFoundation

New to RISA-3D v19 and RISAFoundation v13 is the ability to apply up to 100 "Other Load" Categories. Previously users only had the ability to add up to 10 "Other Load" Categories. The expansion of "Other Load" Categories gives the user more flexibility to be able to apply and organize the loading in the model to fit their needs. To apply "Other Load" Categories in RISA-3D, simply select the "Other Load" Category from the drop down menu when drawing loads. To include the "Other Load" Categories in the Load Combinations in RISA-3D, you may either enter OL1-OL100 in the BLC field or you can select the ellipses to prompt the Set BLC Entry and select the "Other Load" Category from the drop down menu. To apply "Other Load" Categories in RISAFoundation, choose the "Other Loads" from the dropdown on the Distributed Loads Spreadsheet (or in the left Properties Toolbar) and choose a value between 1 and 100. To include these "Other Loads" in Load Combinations, you may either enter OL1-OL100 in the BLC field or you can select the red arrow to prompt the Set Category Entry and choose the "Other Loads" radio button and input a value between 1…

October 26, 2010 | RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISA-2D, RISAFoundation, New, Data Entry, Spreadsheets

How to Use Spreadsheets More Effectively in RISA

RISA includes various advanced spreadsheet operations that make reviewing input and results easy. The features that we will focus on are available in the "Spreadsheet" tab located in the ribbon toolbar whenever a spreadsheet is open as well as by right-clicking in the table. P-Delta analysis is required in the AISC code, and it is something that you must specify on a per-load-combination basis. This is done by typing the letter Y in the P-Delta column of the Load Combinations spreadsheet. For those who aren’t familiar with the spreadsheet tools this can be a tedious task of typing the letter into every load combination. Instead, try doing this: click on the header of the P-Delta column to highlight the entire column in pink, click on the Block Fill button (the one on the right highlighted above) and have the program fill the block (group of currently selected cells) with the letter Y. Now let’s say that you’ve got a solution and you want to review your results, however you may have quite a few members to sort through. You want to quickly see which one has the worst case unity check. If you open up your Design Results spreadsheet you…