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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    Provide Full analysis calculation for structures

    As of now, In staad pro, After applying "RUN ANALYSIS" button, the staad.pro directly provides the results of shear, moment torsion, stresses, deflection, reactions,SFD,BMD etc in various forms, it's okay. But it is highly suggested that staad pro...
    Sahil Shaikh 2 days ago in  0 Needs review

    Physical Member Continuity

    Assigning/Forming a Physical member in the beginning doesn't retain its continuity once it is intersected with multiple members (or) many nodes are inserted/added to it, as the model progress. Would be really helpful — If the program can be update...
    Dani Paul about 16 hours ago in  0 Needs review

    Reverse the direction vector representing member prestress when sign of prestress force is changed from positive to negative or vice versa

    This is a continuation of the previous case number CS0768920 that was initiated and reported by me a few days ago. Your office has auto-closed CS0768920 on the ground that prestress can be considered as having the same category of loads as self-we...
    Guest about 21 hours ago in  0 Needs review

    Mouse Snap-To in Traditional vs Modern GUI

    Its is good to see the STAAD.Pro GUI evolving from the Traditional/Mouse based GUI to the Modern/Touch based GUI. But in some of the Modern Prompts/Messages the mouse doesn't seem to automatically snap to the default button set in that window. (se...
    Dani Paul 3 days ago in  0 Needs review

    Suggestion to have a default set of 'inverted colors' for the Black Diagram Background

    Problem: 1) Selecting the 'Black' Diagram Background (see image-1) changes only the Background color. All other colors such as Node, Member, Load, Dimension, Annotation, Results...etc do not change. 2) For better visibility in Black Screen, the us...
    Dani Paul 4 days ago in  0 Needs review

    plate results: provide design moments (Wood–Armer) in global axes

    For the design of reinforced concrete slabs, an engineer needs design moments for the top and bottom reinforcement in two directions. STAAD.Pro currently gives the bending moments Mx, My and the twisting moment Mxy, and the Global Moments table ex...
    Guest 8 days ago in  0 Needs review

    Code check for EN 1993-1-1 is most of cases wrong when a continious member is divided into several part

    Ref present Staad versions and beam code check according to Eurocode 1993-1-1 Equation 6.61 and 6.62. Staad divide all beams at every incoming beam location and it is not possible to join together several beams to get correct buckling lengths. Eur...
    Guest about 2 months ago in  1 Already exists

    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 9 months ago in  8 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 10 months ago in  3 Planned

    Availability of ASCE/SBC Wind Load Generation in STAAD

    Dear Bentley Team, Could you please advise when the option to generate wind loads in accordance with ASCE or the Saudi Building Code (SBC) will be available in STAAD? At present, I can only find the wind load generation options for IS 875 (Part 3)...
    Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review