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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Spring Support

Spring supports are created only in a particular direction. For e.g. base/soil springs. negative displacement is considered as compression. what if a steel base plate is to be modelled below a concrete slab. There is no way to create a compression...
Guest 7 days ago in  0 Needs review

Built-up tapered section name

All tapered section name shows as a tapered . its very useful if staad pro show the tapered section show the section in the display- Tapered I- 300x6+200x8+150x8 if its uniform web depth Tapered I- (300-750)x6+200x8+150x8 if its tapered web depth ...
Guest 6 days ago in  0 Needs review

Add ability to show "Colour by Utilization Ratio" for 3D view in post processing workflow

It would be good to have a 3D view in post processing with colours of the beam as defined with a UR value. It is possible to have this with beam view now, but would be good if we have it for 3D view like SACS have. (as shown below for example).
Guest about 1 month ago in  2 Needs review

NSCP 2022 Philippines Seismic Load(similar to ASCE 7-10) addition

Requesting to add NSCP 2022 Philippines Seismic Load(similar to ASCE 7-10) addition to STAAD.Pro. Xstructures can provide all formula and technical documentation
Guest 10 months ago in  4 Future consideration

Integration OpenSTAAD with python

I consider that the way of using openstaad with VBA is somewhat tedious due to the characteristics of that programming language, therefore, my idea is to propose an openstaad repository but focused on python, which, in my opinion, would facilitate...
Guest about 1 month ago in  1 Already exists

One Cursor to select all objects

It is highly inefficient to require the user to switch cursors for each selection in STAAD. STAAD shall identify the context of operation automatically, and select the object required. Users should be able to select nodes, beams, plates, loads, te...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed about 1 month ago in  2 Needs review

AISC 341-16/22 Connection Design code support

Connection Design Part in Staad.Pro now only support AISC 341-05, but as we know the latest edition of AISC 341 is AISC 341-16/22 .Althouth the ram connection can support AISC 341-16/22, but it need the designer to add every load case datas to the...
Guest about 1 month ago in  1 Planned

State the code basis for utilization ratio tables in reports

In STAAD 2023, if a report is created and the Utilization Ratio table is included, a critical Clause is listed for each member. However, there is no indication in/above the table of which code, or code version, that the Clause pertains to. Please ...
Steve Haymore about 2 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Exporting Physical members from Staad Pro to RCDC

Hi I have an exceedingly large model which takes hours to run on RCDC. Also, when the model is exported from STAAD to RCDC, all the beam support points are not detected properly by RCDC and I have to spend days just correcting the Beam Continuum. ...
H. E. Sriprakash Shastry 24 days ago in  0 Needs review

Add latest US Aluminum Design Code

STAAD.Pro has offered aluminum design and ASD code checking for many years based on the 1994 Aluminum Design Manual. Since that publication was issued 26 years ago, there have been five subsequent versions released in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2...
Steve Haymore about 2 years ago in  6 Future consideration