October 21, 2014
How are Cantilevered Slabs designed?
Concrete buildings often have large cantilevers. In RISAFloor ES, the Support lines can be drawn to support points but also they can be drawn as cantilevers (shown below).
October 3, 2014
How to Model Support Lines with Parallel Walls
In RISAFloor ES, you draw a support line from support point to support point to define the Design Strips. The program will automatically create Design Strips based on the tributary width. When you have walls in the model, it is often a question of how you draw in the support lines.
September 11, 2014
How Do I Create Offset Connections in RISA-3D?
By default RISA-3D draws all members as line elements located at the centroid of the cross-section. However, connections between members are not always aligned with a member’s centroid. There may be horizontal or vertical offsets in the connection. To account for these you can add rigid links to...
August 27, 2014
What is a Rigid Link in RISA-3D?
A rigid link is a member element in RISA-3D that can be used for many advanced modeling procedures. It is so useful that it is included as one of the default member Section Sets, as you’ll see below.
July 1, 2014
Viewing the Deflected Shape in RISAFloor
The deflected shape is really helpful to understanding your model’s behavior.
June 19, 2014
How to Use Moving Loads
RISA-3D and RISA-2D will allow you to add a moving load pattern to your model and include it in your envelope solution.
June 10, 2014
How to Model Column Outriggers in RISAFloor
RISAFloor now has the capability to model column outriggers. This feature can be found on the Cantilevers tab within the Draw Beams dialog.
May 14, 2014
Trim and Extend in RISAFloor
May 7, 2014
How to Build a Report with Spreadsheet Information, Graphic Images,…
Print reports can contain spreadsheet information, graphic views, detail reports for specific members and load combinations, and external images such as hand calculations, title pages, etc. When in a model view, you will notice a button with an image of a camera on it in the toolbar: