Hi:
I have an application which creates RAM models using the DataAccess COM API. I would like to manually specify column and beam sizes of lateral members and have the user specified values remain after beam and column analysis.
For beams, manually setting the size in RAM modeler results in the expected/desired behavior. However, setting the strSectionID property on layoutbeams seems to not be quite equivalent -- when I do this, my assigned sizes are visible in RAM modeler, but the model does not seem to see my set sizes as "user specified" (e.g. they won't show up under "show options -> user specified") and the set sizes are then overwritten by beam design. Is there some additional setting I need to make via the DataAcesss API to have my set sizes behave the same as those done manually in RAM modeler?
I also have the same issue for lateral system columns in my application.
Thanks much!
--FritzM.