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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October 01, 2024

Viewing Design Foundations in RISA-3D

RISA-3D v16 now includes the added ability to view foundations designed in RISAFoundation. This feature proves useful as it gives a way for engineers...

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October 01, 2024

RISA and Windows 10 April 2018 (version 1803) Update

Update: July 2022 The issues with Windows 10 (Version 1803) have been solved. However, for customers still using older versions of RISA products, the...

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October 01, 2024

Long Term Deflection in RISAFloor ES

RISAFloor ES has the ability to check the Long Term Deflection with Creep and Shrinkage. The program uses an iterative method to adjust the plate...

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October 01, 2024

Vertical Brace Connections per Canadian Code now Available

RISAConnection Version 8.0 now offers Vertical Brace Diagonal Connections, the Vertical Chevron Brace Connection, and the Knee Brace Connection...

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October 01, 2024

Weak Axis Column to Beam Moment Connections now Available

RISAConnection v8 now offers weak axis moment connections with beams framing into the web of a wide flange column. Previously, connections were only...

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October 01, 2024

Two-Sided Shear Connection Design now Available

Now available in RISAConnection v8: the ability to design a Two-Sided Shear Connection. Building from our existing one-sided shear connection (for...

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October 01, 2024

Brace to Column Base Plate Design now Available

You may now design a Brace to Column Base Plate Connection in RISAConnection v8. This connection type combines the original single column base plate...

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October 01, 2024

Brace Design with Tapered Gusset Plates

In RISAConnection v8, you may now design a Knee Brace and Diagonal Brace with a tapered gusset plate. One of the greatest benefits is the decreased...

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October 01, 2024

Masonry Cover Flexibility in RISA-3D

In RISA-3D we now have the ability to:

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