STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

Welcome to the STAAD.Pro Ideas portal. The purpose of this site is to post ideas for enhancements and new features. We value your feedback and our team regularly reviews your suggestions for consideration in future releases.

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    STAAD Command Line Editor - VS Code Extension Support

    The STAAD Command File Editor is good, however when experiencing Visual Studio Code and other QOL extensions like 'TODO Tree' (see example screenshot), it is a shame there is no VS Code extension for syntax / "intellisense" for STAAD input file / ...
    Guest about 1 hour ago in  0 Needs review

    STAAD Analysis and Design Dialog Font Changed

    Users have reported that the font in the Analysis and Design dialogs of STAAD.Pro suddenly appears significantly larger and thicker, without any intentional change to: Windows display scaling Windows text size STAAD.Pro user or display setti...
    Abhisek Mandal about 18 hours ago in  0 Needs review

    To be able to create groups/assemblies

    To be able to select certain members and group them (not as GROUP tool) like an assembly. Then, if any change needs to be perform in a member of the assembly, you isolate the assembly, change one, and then all the copies update also. I find this u...
    Saul Cuen 1 day ago in  0 Needs review

    Adding measurement tool

    The node‑to‑node distance tool in STAAD.Pro is quite basic and, in its current form, not particularly useful when distances need to be measured independently along the X, Y, and Z axes. Bentley already provides this functionality in some of its ot...
    Guest 3 months ago in  1 Needs review

    Automatic Load Scaling

    The floor loads in dead and live load cases are shown in some default scales. We can change the scale manually but it does not stay. Whenever the different load items from different load cases are selected the scale get reset. The user defined sca...
    Abhisek Mandal about 1 month ago in  0 Needs review

    Provide STAAD Foundation Advanced a method to manage the link to a STAAD.Pro model

    When a STAAD Foundation model is created from a STAAD.Pro model, that is added to the STAAD.Pro folder. This process creates pointers in both data sets that link the two models together and allow for notification when changes takes place. However,...
    Guest 2 months ago in  7 Future consideration

    Inclusion of the newly released Indian Seismic Code IS 1893 (Part 1&5): 2025 in STAAD.Pro.

    Since STAAD.Pro currently supports earlier IS 1893 versions, having the 2025 version integrated will be essential to ensure code-compliant analysis and safe design in India. The 2025 revision introduces major updates: A revised earthquake zone m...
    Guest 4 months ago in  3 Planned

    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 11 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Update feature for design of composite column and Beam to IS 11384:2022

    Using two materials in beam or column sections enhances structural performance and allows for reduced member sizes. Composite sections exhibit lower deflections under lateral loads such as wind or seismic forces, resulting in reduced damage. Addit...
    Guest 4 months ago in  2 Planned

    MTO in Steel Auto Drafter

    Steel auto drafter needs enhancement in calculating MTO, so that the values match with STAAD.Pro outputs. Refer Feature (PBI ) # 763817
    Guest 16 days ago in  0 Needs review