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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    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 25 days ago in  0 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 8 months ago in  8 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 17 days ago in  0 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 9 months ago in  3 Planned

    Enhancement Request: Automatic Property Color Assignment

    Currently, under the Properties tab, all section properties are displayed in the same color, making it difficult to quickly identify different member types in the model. Previously, a color assignment option existed, but users had to manually assi...
    RAHUL BRIJPUIYA 24 days ago in  0 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 7 months ago in  7 Future consideration

    staadpro 中直接分析法，添加屏幕上notional load的显示

    在staad 中直接分析法中，用repeat load 然后在用notional load，点击repeat load屏幕上能显示，点击notional load无法显示。能否像repeatload 一样，点击notional load在屏幕上显示notional load。
    Guest 16 days ago in  0 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 7 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Opfimize a steel structure under Eurocode 3

    Please find an attached file. (includes addendum posted in a separate idea now closed)
    Guest about 1 month ago in  1 Needs review

    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 9 months ago in  2 Future consideration