Tips & Tricks

October 30, 2025

🎃 Trick or Treat… It’s RISA-Jeopardy! 👻

Halloween isn’t just for candy and costumes—it’s the perfect time to test your spooky engineering skills! We’ve brewed up a Halloween-themed RISA Jeopardy game, packed with fun, easy questions about our software. Tip for readers: Try to answer before revealing the “treat” below each question! 💀 Can You Count? 100 – RISACalc: How many components are currently available in RISACalc? 10 (Beam, Column, Steel Joist, Composite Beam, Retaining Wall, Spread Footing, Wall Footing, Drilled Pier, Seismic Load, Wind Load) 200 – FD: How many Data Entry spreadsheets are available in RISAFoundation? 25 300 – RISA-3D: How many countries or regions have building codes supported in RISA-3D? 9 (US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia) 🎃 Adaptable 100 – ADAPT: Which of these is not an ADAPT product? ADAPT-Builder, ADAPT-Felt, ADAPT-Floor, ADAPT-ABI ADAPT-Floor 200 – ADAPT: Which mode of ADAPT-Builder is used to design slabs-on-grade on expansive soils using the PTI method? ADAPT-SOG 🕸️ The Whole Family 100 – Other: This steel detailing software and fellow Nemetschek brand has a built-in export option in RISA-3D. SDS2 200 – Other: Which design code is the most common in our software, found in 8 of our 10 programs?…

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Flange Plate Column Cap Plate Moment Connection
January 29, 2020

Flange Plate Column Cap Plate Moment Connection

RISAConnection includes the ability to design Column to Beam Column Cap Flange Plate Moment Connections according to AISC 360. This widely requested feature allows users to define the beam as a wide flange and the column as either a wide flange, tapered wide flange or HSS tube. To begin, choose the...

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WEBINAR: Experience the All-New RISA-3D
January 17, 2020

WEBINAR: Experience the All-New RISA-3D

The All New RISA-3D provides engineers with a fresh new take on the most popular 3D general analysis and design software available. With a completely redesigned interface, robust graphical modeling tools, expanded detailed reports and multi-core processing, RISA-3D v18 allows engineers to work more...

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RISA-3D Version 20 FAQs
December 31, 2019

RISA-3D Version 20 FAQs

Q: Are the files backward and forward compatible between versions? A: Yes, the files are backward and forward compatible between all versions.

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Using Redesign Lists in RISA-3D
December 5, 2019

Using Redesign Lists in RISA-3D

RISA-3D includes Redesign Lists that are used to optimize hot-rolled steel, cold-formed steel, dimensional lumber, and concrete beams and columns. Although, the criteria used for this optimization is the Design Rules, the sizes must be chosen from the available sizes in the Redesign List. It is now...

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