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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Request for Function Creation in OpenSTAAD to Modify Response Spectrum Direction in X, Y, and Z

Request for Function Creation in OpenSTAAD to Modify Response Spectrum Direction in X, Y, and Z We are working with OpenSTAAD and need to programmatically modify the response spectrum direction values in X, Y, and Z. In the attached image, the val...
ANNY VILLEGAS 6 days ago in  0 Needs review

Automatic Linking of Connections in Connection Designer with Steel AutoDrafter

I would like to suggest a significant improvement to the software. Currently, marking each connection one by one in engineering drawings is time-consuming and prone to errors. It would be extremely useful to link the connections generated in Conne...
ANNY VILLEGAS 14 days ago in  0 Needs review

Cold form section outside the standard library not designed in STAADpro as per IS801

STAADpro is not able to design cold form section outside the standard library or any user defined cold form section as per IS801. This is severe limitation as many users are using sections of their choice which are not in the library. This is espe...
Guest about 19 hours ago in  0 Needs review

Design of double channel section in STAAD needs improvement

At present design of double channel in STAAD as per IS800 LSD is having certain work flow. It assumes higher MI as a major axis even if it can be about minor axis Y which is not correct. STAAD should consider section orientation as provided by use...
Guest about 19 hours ago in  0 Needs review

Design of double I section as column is required.

In most of the industrial sheds, double I section spaced apart is used as crane column and single I section is used to support the roof above. In present STAADpro ver 24 facility to design double I section as per IS800 LSD is not available . This ...
Guest about 19 hours ago in  0 Needs review

STAAD.Pro AISC/CSA Code Checks - Eccentric Axial Specification

There is currently no way, other than directly adding rigid body members with the necessary releases, to simulate an an axial angle or tee member (brace) under eccentric axial load. This causes a high amount of manual calculations to determine the...
Guest 20 days ago in  0 Needs review

STAAD UNL,LY,LZ,KY,KZ.

I am suggesting STAAD to implement new features for users, which will make the users use a short time in steel design. 1. As we know, sometimes we may have a secondary beam where this beam will create a node in the primary beam. Now, to make the s...
Joseph Lucas Magare about 1 month ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Show Tee Sections (From Halved Wide Flanges) as the WT callout

Sometimes these drawings are sent to other colleagues that do 3D modeling, and sometimes do not know that W200x27 TEE === WT100x13. It would be an improvement for the Schedule of Sections and MTOs show the correct WT callout, when a STAAD users sp...
Guest 27 days ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Save as PDF

Please allow option to save drawings from AutoDrafter to PDF.
Guest 27 days ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Allow Base Plate Plan

There is currently no way to create a base plate plan in AutoDrafter. Please add it.
Guest 27 days ago in  0 Needs review