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

Circular Slab Generation in RISAFoundation

RISAFoundation now has the ability to automatically generate a circular...

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October 01, 2024

How Do Plates Connect to Members?

In order to understand the interaction between plates and members it is...

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October 01, 2024

How to Create an Engineered Wood Material

In RISA-3D and RISAFloor, the entire NDS species list is available as well...

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October 01, 2024

How Do Plates Connect to Each Other?

To best understand how plates interact with each other you must first...

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October 01, 2024

Define a Beam Eccentricity in RISA-3D

When you have a deep column, it is necessary to model the beam so that it...

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October 01, 2024

Let’s Customize Your RISA Toolbar

The customizable toolbar is a new feature in RISAFloor. It’s really useful...

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October 01, 2024

How to Correctly Define Unbraced Lengths

There are four different values for Unbraced lengths in RISA-3D, RISA-2D...

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October 01, 2024

What Are Physical Members?

Members (beams, columns, braces, etc.) are defined in RISA by an I-Node...

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October 01, 2024

How to Model a Two-Dimensional Component in RISA-3D

If you have ever tried to solve a two-dimensional model in RISA-3D, you...

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