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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Reporting

October 01, 2024

Updates to Compile Report Settings in ADAPT-Builder

ADAPT-Builder 2020 includes new enhancements to the compile report settings allowing users to more quickly and easily create detailed reports. To...

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October 01, 2024

Why is my force demand higher than what is reported in my force…

A question that we are asked from time to time in technical support is “why is my required force higher than what is reported in my force diagrams”....

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October 01, 2024

Plate Elements Available in Material Takeoff

RISA-3D now includes plate elements in the Material Takeoff.

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October 01, 2024

Envelope Detail Report Results

RISA-3D v14 introduced envelope detail reports for all material members. This means that you can see the enveloped solution (force diagrams and...

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