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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Improve picture resolution

Restore the picture resolution that previously appeared in V22 and before, so as for the filter (when a group selected) in creating report as we are still using V22 to create report and i don't know what the purpose to downgrade quality in a suppo...
Guest about 11 hours ago in  Needs review

Ecentricity Consideration during wind load as per ASCE

While applying wind load based on the attached ASCE provisions for all height cases with a rigid diaphragm roof, it appears that STAAD.Pro does not consider eccentricity. It would be beneficial for users if this aspect could be incorporated in fut...
Guest 2 days ago in  Needs review

Improve the Reports Workflow

This idea is submitted on behalf of Adane Teferi, from HDR, Inc. Please consider improving the following features in the Reports Workflow Some tables cannot be filtered by group and other options. Note results summary is an example of this. PBI ...
Ricardo Pichardo 5 days ago in  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  Needs review

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 13 days ago in  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 2 months ago in  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 3 months ago in  Future consideration

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  Needs review

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 5 months ago in  Planned

(**ERROR: ONLY RECTANGLE, SQUARE AND CIRCULAR SECTIONS ARE DESIGNED AS COLUMN. MEMBER # "XXX" WILL NOT BE DESIGNEDError should be mentioned/enlisted about reinforcement ties/stirrups types instead of rectangle or square and circular section assignments. this is misleading understanding of error.

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Dharmik Dodiya 8 days ago in  Needs review