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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Separate Ice Load From Member Weight

To correctly use the ASCE 7 load combinations including atmospheric ice, the ice load (Di) needs to be separate from the member self weight. As STAAD does not include an ice load generation tool, fireproofing can be used to apply ice loads to memb...
Guest about 7 hours ago in  0 Needs review

Providing a Steel Box section by Tube option in User provided table

For Providing a Steel Box section with different Flange and web thickness , we have to make the section in Section Wizard which is time consuming during Optimization and also 3D visualisation is not there. If the feature similar to Tube in User pr...
Guest 1 day ago in  0 Needs review

Beam local axis symbol, scaling

After being introduced to StaadPRO, the one fundamental thing that I can't believe is not implemented is scaling of local beam axis symbols. It's at times almost impossible to find out the local axis of the beams in the graphic area, and this is v...
Oyvind Fredriksen 1 day ago in  0 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 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Request to Correct Default Seismic Zone Factor for Cuddalore, Tamilnadu, India in STAAD.Pro as per IS 1893 - Part 1 - 2016

Hello STAAD.Pro Team, While generating Seismic Definitions, the software automatically assigns the Zone Factor for Cuddalore, Tamilnadu, India as 0.16. This value is not aligned with local seismic requirements and also with IS 1893 - Part 1 - 2016...
Guest 5 days ago in  0 Needs review

ENABLE DESIGN MODELING FOR CORRUGATED STEEL DECK DIAPHRAGMS

Section 12.3 of ASCE 7 - 22 states that unless a diaphragm can be idealized as either flexible or rigid, structural analysis should explicitly include consideration of the stiffness of the diaphragm (i.e. semirigid modeling). I am publishing an ar...
Guest 11 days ago in  0 Needs review

Provide option to Rename the Group

Sometimes, during the initial stages, we may assign a group name—say, XYZ—but later someone might want to change that group name. There should be an option to rename the group without opening the STAAD editor file.
RAHUL BRIJPUIYA 13 days ago in  1 Future consideration

Drift Parameters in Russian Steel Codes

If there is no particular reason why the Russian steel design codes(SP 16.13330) do not provide parameters for drift verification (such as CAN in AISC), I would like to formally request that they be added.
Guest 10 days ago in  4 Will not implement

Particular Cases for Validation and Calculation of Ly and Lz Lengths in STAAD.Pro

We have noticed that, under certain configurations, the “Effective Length Calculator” tool in STAAD.Pro may yield results that are not conservative, which poses a risk to the structural safety of the project. Allowing users to validate and manuall...
ANNY VILLEGAS 3 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Implementation of Export to .docx with Native Word Tables

Details: Generation of Native Tables: STAAD.Pro Advance should create tables using Microsoft Word's internal structure. Basic Format Maintenance: Maintain borders and initial alignment to facilitate identification, prioritizing editability. Text N...
ANNY VILLEGAS 4 months ago in  0 Needs review