--- title: RAM Structural System Reviews meta\_title: 'RAM Structural System Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how RAM Structural System works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 13 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # RAM Structural System Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by RAM Structural System but has limited features. Are you part of the RAM Structural System team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Save time and money by automating the most tedious, repetitive, and time-consuming project tasks. When you increase your productivity, you can focus on the more critical aspects of design and provide a superior and more cost-effective solution to your client. RAM Structural System provides you a complete solution for analysis, design, drafting, and documentation for steel and concrete buildings, foundations, and even individual structural components; all in compliance with your local building codes. RAM Structural System helps engineers like you: - Save countless hours with an intuitive modeling environment - Design structural steel and concrete elements, including foundations, to conform with design and building code provisions - Analyze the buildings’ lateral system for wind and seismic loads in the most practical way - Calculate the gravity load distribution across the structure using specialized methods, tailored to specific framing systems - Share your structural data with applications such as Revit, Tekla, and Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer - Seamlessly integrate with complementary applications like RAM Concept and RAM Connection to make the most of your RAM model * * * Seller [Bentley Systems](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bentley-systems) Discussions [RAM Structural System Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ram-structural-system/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Brooke Azem (Product Marketing, Design Engineering Analysis at Bentley Systems) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by RAM Structural System. ### RAM Structural System 12-Month Subscription $3,902.00 1 License Per Year [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ram-structural-system/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Revit](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Revit") Revit 4.6/5(956) ](https://www.g2.com/products/revit/reviews) [ ![AutoCAD](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AutoCAD") AutoCAD 4.4/5(1,940) ](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) [ ![SketchUp](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SketchUp") SketchUp 4.5/5(1,327) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sketchup/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ram-structural-system/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Architecture & Planning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Architecture & Planning") UA Verified User in Architecture & Planning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/24/2025 "Efficient automation and time saving with RAM Structural System" 4/5 What do you like best about RAM Structural System? What I like about RAM Structural System is the fact that the software manages to automate the distribution of loads and the design of a large number of elements in a single analysis, which saves a lot of time on steel and concrete building projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RAM Structural System? I like less the fact that certain modules have to be restarted separately after each modification, which makes the workflow a bit cumbersome on complex projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RAM Structural System solving and how is that benefiting you? RAM Structural System helps me especially to quickly manage the analysis and design of complete structures without having to multiply separate models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated JM Jason M. P Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/5/2022 "RAM Structural System can be a mixed bag" 3.5/5 What do you like best about RAM Structural System? This review is for RAM Structural System v17.04. RSS does composite beam design well. After 10 years of using RAM, I was surprised to see the lack of automatic composite beam design in other programs. Lateral load input is pretty simple and automated compared to other programs. Connection design integration is generally good with automatic import of all the load combos from the framing design modules, but it also has some significant shortcomings to be discussed. Open-web steel joists are readily usable, and there are even some ways to model them in moment frames. Several proprietary seismic systems have been incorporated, such as Simpson Yield-Link, SidePlate, DuraFuse, and CoreBrace, as well as typical nonproprietary systems like RBS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RAM Structural System? The piecemeal development history of RAM from several different modules makes for an inconsistent user interface across the "system". Changing anything in the RAM Frame or Connection modules often requires going back to the Modeler module and then hitting each subsequent module to hit "run" in each one to get back to where you were. RAM Connection can't handle many of the framing configurations possible in RSS. You have to choose between running roof live loads OR running snow loads; you can't just input both and have the framing sized for whichever combination governs that member. So most models take 2 runs to complete: one with roof live load over everything, and one with base snow and drifts. It surprisingly also can't handle wind uplift at all. Sloped diaphragms are still painful. While Bentley is continuing to improve the program, development has generally been VERY slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RAM Structural System solving and how is that benefiting you? It analyzes typical commercial building structures (particularly steel-framed, flat-roofed boxes) relatively quickly and speeds up the design of such buildings. It's not the best program for structures outside that area, but it takes care of the majority of our workload well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/5/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sam R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sam R.") SR Sam R. Structural Engineer, Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/15/2020 "SIMPLE STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROGRAM" 4/5 What do you like best about RAM Structural System? THE EASE OF USE AND ABILITY TO MODEL SIMPLE STEEL AND CONCRETE BUILDINGS QUICKLY AND EASILY. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RAM Structural System? THE LIMITATIONS OF THE PROGRAM TO HANDLE COMPLEX FRAMING, AND IT SEEMS MOST BUILDING HAVE SOME "COMPLEX" FRAMING. LACK OF MASONRY, CFS, AND WOOD MATERIALS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RAM Structural System: KEEP THE USE OF THE PROGRAM TO THE TYPE OF BUILDINGS IT WORKS WELL FOR; DO NOT TRY TO FORCE THE PROGRAM TO WORK FOR COMPLEX BUILDINGS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RAM Structural System solving and how is that benefiting you? STEEL BUILDING DESIGN IN ALL AREAS. CONCRETE BUILDING DESIGN FOR RC BUILDINGS AND PT BUILDINGS. I ACTUALLY USE RSS MORE FOR CONCRETE BUILDINGS THAN FOR STEEL BUILDINGS THESE DAYS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Eric H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eric H.") EH Eric H. Senior Structural Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/9/2020 "RAM Structural System is more than just a steel design program" 4/5 What do you like best about RAM Structural System? Easy floor based structural analysis modeling of buildings. Makes common building analysis assumptions that require much more effort using general purpose finite element analysis software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RAM Structural System? Some building structure configurations can be difficult to model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RAM Structural System solving and how is that benefiting you? Currently using RAM Structural System to help design light wood frame buildings with open fronts where I need a rigid diaphragm assumption. Using the application programming interface to pull forces into design spreadsheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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