I quickly ran both files through my translators

CIS2 Example (3D ver3):

        This appears to be a manufacturing (Physical) model.  I keyed
        off of entity LOCATED_ASSEMBLY to build the structure and the
        item_description attribute of that LOCATED_ASSEMBLY to set the
        member types. 

        285 total members (247 beams, 37 columns, 1 vertical brace)

        Quickly overlooking this structure, the beams and columns seem
        to tie together well.  The vertical brace work line seems to
        fall off the beam workline (in the negative y direction of my
        global coordinate system.  I do not know if this is a problem or
        not. 

CIS2 Example (RAM ver7_03):

        This appears to be an Analysis Model.  I keyed off of the enity 
        ASSEMBLY_MAP to build the structure.  I used the
        ASSEMBLY_DESIGN_STRUCTURSL_MEMBER_LINEAR attribute
        linear_member_type to set the member types.

        308 total members (229 beams, 37 columns, 42 vertical braces)

        Quickly overlooking this strucure, I found that the columns are
        approxiamtely 280,878 mm (921.5 inches) ) long and lie above the
        building in my global z direction.

        Looking at Flr3Col1:

        #11=(GEOMETRIC_REPRESENTATION_CONTEXT(3)
                GLOBAL_UNIT_ASSIGNED_CONTEXT((#2933)) 
                REPRESENTATION_CONTEXT('linear_units_context','linear_units'));
        #361=ASSEMBLY_MAP(#2660,(#1507));
        #1074=ELEMENT_NODE_CONNECTIVITY(1,'Start Node',#2227,#1507,$,#2962);
        #1075=ELEMENT_NODE_CONNECTIVITY(2,'End Node',#2228,#1507,$,#2962);
        #2227=NODE('np662',#3632,$,#2964);
        #2228=NODE('np663',#3633,$,#2964);
        #3632=CARTESIAN_POINT('cp663',
                (-2800.,1899.99987792969,11670.0009765625)); 
        #3633=CARTESIAN_POINT('cp664',
                (-2800.,1899.99987792969,292548.03125));
        #2660=ASSEMBLY_DESIGN_STRUCTURAL_MEMBER_LINEAR(331,
                'Flr3Col1',$,$,$,$,.T.,
                .F.,(),(),$,.COMBINED_MEMBER.,.UNDEFINED_CLASS.,.COLUMN.); 
        #2933=(LENGTH_UNIT() NAMED_UNIT(*) SI_UNIT(.MILLI.,.METRE.));

        The vertical brace that corisponds to the one in the previous
        file also falls off the beam workline (in the positive y
        direction of my global corrdinate system.

I have received several files from RAM in the past and have not seen
this column problem before.

I have not performed any in depth evaluation on either file.


-Barry Butler
 Development Manager, Design Data