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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Reports Workflow. Implement missing support types.

This idea is submitted on behalf of Alberto Prieto. Currently, if you open the Sample model US-23 Spring Support Generation model and analyze it. When generating the report and adding the Supports tables, only "FIXED" supports are printed, while t...
Ricardo Pichardo 4 months ago in  Future consideration

AISC Seismic Provisions. Print Warnings for TRACK 0

This idea is submitted on behalf of Melvin Nicolas, from Siemens. Currently, STAAD.Pro does not print any warnings when the SEICMIC 1 and TRACK 0 commands are assigned. If the TRACK 2 command is introduced, many new warnings may be printed in the ...
Ricardo Pichardo 4 months ago in  Future consideration

Include reactions from control nodes in the Statics Checks summary

This idea is submitted on behalf of Michael Mills from Payne-Huber Engineering STAAD.Pro won't currently include the reactions from Control Nodes in the Statics Check. Although this is documented (TR.28.1 Control/Dependent Specification), it can l...
Ricardo Pichardo 4 months ago in  Future consideration

Make the detailed AISI design output available in the Reports Workflow

This idea is submitted on behalf of Cameron Empey from Betchtel. There's no way to include the TRACK 2 AISI output in the report. Please make that an available item to add. PBI Ref:1785991
Ricardo Pichardo 4 months ago in  Future consideration

When design fails, to be able to change section without losing analysis

Staad.Pro has tools to select member sections, but even those are not optimum, and custom selection of a member section by hand may be more precise. But changing by hand and re-analyzing all the structure is very time consuming. The idea is to be ...
Saul Cuen 5 months ago in  Future consideration

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 5 months ago in  Future consideration

Multiple Mass Models

A STAAD.Pro dynamic analysis currently supports solving models in which the results of all dynamic cases use eigen values determined from a single mass matrix. This means currently STAAD.Pro cannot perform an analysis on a model where the consider...
Carlos Aguera 7 months ago in  Future consideration

Preserve Analysis Results for Non-Structural Command File Changes

Description: Currently, STAAD deletes all analysis results whenever the command file is modified, even for changes that do not affect the structural analysis—such as adding comments, defining groups, or creating envelopes. This forces users to rer...
Brett Wyman 7 months ago in  Future consideration

3D View Independent Member Colors

Currently, the 3D rendered view assigns colors by section type, meaning all members with the same section must share one color. This makes it difficult to distinguish existing vs. proposed members or highlight specific components during review. Re...
Hesham Elbehy 7 months ago in  Future consideration

Implement code check according to 1999-1-1 (Eurocode Aluminium)

There is no aluminium code check for european users. Also the only aluminium code available is the American standard Aluminium design manual 1994 edition, which is outdated. Code check equivalent to EC1993-1-1 would have been highly appreciated.
Oyvind Fredriksen 7 months ago in  Future consideration