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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Extend the UPT PRISMATIC and GENERAL with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes

Idea on behalf of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation The UPT Prismatic and General are to be extended with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes. Currently Shape Editor program calculates the sectional proper...
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 3 days ago in  Needs review

Switching the selected load off/on

Sometimes, when I analyze a problem in a certain place on the structure, or I want to show a certain load without having the surrounding loads there, which make this display unclear, I have to go to the "Command file" and make notes from the selec...
Guest 4 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 5 months ago in  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 about 1 year ago in  Needs review

Command lines as notes

Hi. Now, when I want to make notes from command lines, I have to put an "asterisk" in front of each line and when I want them to be commands again, I have to delete all the asterisks. Could it be possible to create a possibility that the given com...
Guest 8 days 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 6 months ago in  Planned

Project units, display units, input units

Now I find very complicated to work units in Staad. I select units when creating new project, but if I need to change units for some process I have to change Input units, which is somewhat OK. But display units are different, so I have to change t...
Saul Cuen 18 days ago in  Needs review

Extraction of steel design results with GetMemberSteelDesignResults function for multiple design parameter block

Request from Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd The usability of function GetMultipleMemberSteelDesignResults should be extended so that the function can extract the steel design for multiple steel design parameter block for all steel design code . Also t...
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 18 days 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 4 months ago in  Future consideration

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 4 months ago in  Needs review