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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Include design by Mexican code NTC-2023

Design by mexican code, NTC Diseño de estructuras de acero (steel design) 2023.
Saul Cuen 3 days ago in  Needs review

[CS0679673] Stretch Beam command doesn't work consistently

The routine for stretching members is NOT designed to support members that overlap existing members as mentioned by development team. But this logic is not consistent across all locations. The stretch beam routine sometimes fails to detect the ove...
Suvadeep Acharjee 4 days ago in  Needs review

Show Utilization ratio for concrete members as is shown for steel members

“Utilization ratios are not currently displayed during the design of RCC members in STAAD.Pro. Including this feature would be highly beneficial for engineers, as it would allow quicker assessment of member efficiency and overall design performance.”
Guest 9 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 4 months ago in  Needs review

Inclined RCC beam design using RCDC.

Implement the function to design Inclined RCC Beam in RCDC.
Gourishankar Badiger 6 days ago in  Needs review

Need the provision for Stainless steel Structure Design as per En 1993-1-4.

We need to design platforms for chemical industry where the material is Stainless steel and we cannot design as per EN 1993-1-4.
Gourishankar Badiger 6 days 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 12 months 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 5 months ago in  Planned

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 2 months 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 3 months ago in  Future consideration