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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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Added functionality of new Effective Length Calculator

I am liking this new calculator it super cool. But I have two ideas to build on it 1) The training video that Bentley created to demonstrate this calculator had the demonstrator use the calculator and then open up the input file to delete out the ...
Dallin STRONG 2 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Better integration of physical members in Analysis Model

When a physical member is created, STAAD should handle the collection of beams as one entity. When a section of material is assigned, it should always be to the physical member. End releases will only exist at the ends of the physical member. Curr...
Guest 21 days ago in  1 Already exists

Improve the placing of annotation text in plots

The possibility to presents diagrams with annotation is very importent for the documentation of analysis. Today the annotation of values for forces, moments, dispacements and so on does often clash with the geometry plot. The possibilites to adjus...
Guest 21 days ago in  1 Needs review

SOLIDITY RATIO IN STEEL STRUCTURE

Automation of solidity ratio of steel structure for calculating wing load shall be done. It is very time-consuming process for every structure design.
Guest 6 months ago in  7 Already exists

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 over 1 year ago in  5 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to extract the Beam Forces summary table for the selected beams

Hi, Typically, to get end forces to design the connection for a certain beam size, a group is created and the bounding beam forces for the group are extracted using the "Beam Results - Beam Forces - Summary table" using the "Results Setup - Range ...
Tom Pallister about 1 month ago in  1 Future consideration

Add load to the node/beam/element group using OpenSTAAD

Hi, I have an OpenSTAAD program that generates groups and that applies loads to the elements/beams/nodes in those groups. However I'd like to apply the load to the group directly using openSTAAD as you can in the STAAD Command File? What I want to...
Tom Pallister about 1 month ago in  1 Future consideration

Time History in multiple load case for blast loads

For Blast loads in some cases we have to apply blast load in all the direction i.e x and z in different load cases. presently the time history load is possible only in one load case. Time history should be allowed to be added in mutiple load cases
Ashok K 3 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Create an OpenSTAAD method that can do pictures

I was really hoping that OpenSTAAD had a method that would be able to take pictures of my model for me. I can't seem to find anything that suggest this is possible. We create reports that are being submitted, and generally we snap pictures of the ...
Dallin STRONG 5 months ago in  3 Future consideration

Wind loading on cylindrical structures as per IS 1875 part 3

Provide a method to create wind loading on Cylindrical Structures as per Wind Pressure coefficients in clause 7.3.3.7 using Table 19 of IS 875 Part-3 2015
Guest 3 months ago in  4 Needs review