Before You Begin

Welcome to the RISA-3D Help File. Please read this topic and pay particular attention to the License Agreement. If you are a first time user of RISA-3D you should turn your attention to the Tutorials (a separate document) which are designed to get you up and running as fast as possible while still exposing you to the important features of the software.

The Tutorials are designed to be read in two ways. If you are already familiar with structural modeling in general you can skip the supporting text and read only the underlined action items to quickly move through the tutorial. If you want more thorough explanations of the modeling process you may read all or some of the supporting text as you see fit.

After you have gone through the Tutorials, use this Help File for detailed information on any topic. The topics are arranged in alphabetical order and are thoroughly indexed.