STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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Incorporate code IS 16700 at earliest.

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Sahil Shaikh 3 days ago in  1 Needs review

Implementation of IS18168 for steel design in STAAD Pro

Latest code released in 2023 for designing of steel members is STILL not available in STAAD.Pro. This has already been implemented in MIDAS.
View Dosi 5 months ago in  0 Needs review

Copy / Move Radial Nodes

Problem: For circular structures, nodes are radially located about a common center. Moving or copying nodes becomes a problem in that X and Z coordinates have to be computed. Or they have to be located / generated by a circular repeat command. Sug...
Guest 4 days ago in  4 Needs review

GPU Acceleration for Improved Rendering

STAAD.Pro currently uses the GPU for basic rendering, but performance often depends on integrated graphics, which limits responsiveness for large models. Optimizing the software to fully leverage dedicated GPUs would deliver smoother navigation, f...
Guest 5 days ago in  0 Needs review

shear lug can bear trnasversal & longitudinal direction shear at same time

now, shear lug can only bear trnasversal or longitudinal direction shear. hope it can bear both direction shear at same time.
Guest 5 days ago in  0 Needs review

b/tf and d/tw ratio to be reported in Staad Output for Built up sections

For the Rolled sections, it is easy to know the b/t and d/t values. However, for Built up sections, it is bit tricky. Staad Output file directly reports the Section classification. It would give more clarity during member Optimization if these val...
Guest about 1 month ago in  2 Needs review

Request for Plate Corner Stress OpenSTAAD Function

In the OpenSTAAD module, the function to extract plate corner stress results is currently not available. Kindly include the appropriate OpenSTAAD function or method to retrieve plate corner stresses. Thank you.
sithukkannan M about 1 month ago in  0 Needs review

Reintroduce report filtering option for "Max Forces by Property". (Filtering should apply to all items)

Reintroducing filtering "Max Forces by Property" to include by "View" and by "group", allows max member forces for selected members to be extracted simply & quickly. These max member forces can then be used in separate detail connection calcul...
Guest 8 days ago in  0 Needs review

Additional User Control of Angle/Double Angle User Steel Table Specification

The issue here lies with the Angle / Double Angle User Steel Table Specification inputs - unlike the "Tee" input dialogue box where the user can specify the Cross Sectional Area (Ax) - the Double Angle input auto-calculates the area based on the a...
David Ghattas 10 days ago in  0 Needs review

Providing a Steel Box section by Tube option in User provided table

For Providing a Steel Box section with different Flange and web thickness , we have to make the section in Section Wizard which is time consuming during Optimization and also 3D visualisation is not there. If the feature similar to Tube in User pr...
Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review