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

Residual Rigid Response (Dynamics)

When running a Response Spectrum analysis for seismic design, the response for high frequency modes can be included without solving for their...

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October 01, 2024

What Loads Transfer from RISAFloor to RISA-3D?

RIAFloor designs the gravity system and then integrates with RISA-3D to design the lateral system. Only the lateral members are taken from RISAFloor...

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October 01, 2024

How do you add Shear Caps to columns?

Per the ACI, you can add a Shear Cap to your column to increase the shear strength of the slab. In RISAFloor ES two-way slabs, adding a shear cap...

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October 01, 2024

How to Create a Custom Shape in RISA-3D

There are multiple options in RISA-3D and RISAFloor to create a custom shape not available in the program databases. The first, is to utilize...

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October 01, 2024

How to Import a Seismic Moment Connection into RISAConnection

Design for seismic connection detailing is now available in RISAConnection and you can use the connection rules within RISAFloor and RISA-3D to...

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October 01, 2024

Capture Animation in RISA

This video will demonstrate how to capture the animation from RISA-3D into a movie format. The deflected shape, moving loads and mode shapes can all...

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October 01, 2024

Improved Result Access in RISA

This video tutorial will demonstrate how to find quickly review the results in RISA-3D in order to optimize the design.

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October 01, 2024

Include Moving Load in Batch Solution

With the new release of RISA-3D v13.0, you now have the ability to include moving load combinations in a Batch solution. Just select which load...

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October 01, 2024

How Do I Change the Slab Local Axes?

RISAFoundation has the ability to change the Local Axes for slabs. This is useful when you have a slab that is skewed from the global axis....

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