risa 3d opinions
risa 3d opinions
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Looking for opinions on risa 3d. Will be using it for mainly small size projects a lot of residential but want an all purpose program. How do you find its capabilities for small masonry or wood strucutres? How well does it do wood diaphragms and shearwalls? Will it do diaphragms on an inclined plane?






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DaveAtkins
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Note that they don't have non-linear capabilities (vs. SAP).
Rare to get very robust solution and also very user-friendly, but RISA 3D does this well.
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At the end it differs from person to person,
For me I would highly recommend SAP2000 it has powerful non-linear engine and cable analysis (And cable element already defined with detailed settings it is really wonderful "STAAD has only 2 or 3 settings and doesn't have cable element and as I remember RISA too), and they have several software that are efficient such as (SAFE, ETABAS) have a look here: http://www.csiberkeley.com/
Regarding user friendly I would say STAAD is the best, then SAP then Risa.
Good luck
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1. The ability to copy & paste input data from Excel. You can use formulas to do operations like find & replace text, temporarily store fields of data, etc.
2. The ability to import DXF files. I can quickly draw complex line geometry in AutoCAD and import it into RISA without hand entering any coordinates.
Other programs may have these too?