Fed up with RAM
I’ve been working as a structural engineer for about 5 years. EVERYTIME the topic of structural analysis softwares comes up there is always a bad sentiment towards RAM/Bentley and their business practices and software bugs/UI funkiness. I always wonder why no one has created a software to replace RAMSS. At my firm, RAMSS is the go to software for composite design and I get why. Their composite designer is very powerful and using the same model for lateral design just fits with the flow. however, the UI blackboxiness and the overall stability of the software is well.. rough.
I can’t help but think there’s gotta be a better way. I am aware of ETABS and RISA Floors ability to do composite design, but I find the softwares to be a little too advanced for just composite gravity design.
Rant over. Would love to hear peoples thoughts. And I wonder with the advancements in AI when will there be a RAM replacement.