STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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AutoDrafter - Clicking "Open in Microstation" does not work for OpenBuildings Designer

Please add support for OpenBuildings Designer being able to open drawings from AutoDrafter.
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Allow Manual Assignment of Member/Connection Type

AutoDrafter appears to have some automated rules that are not perfect; would be nice to be able to override Member/Connection Type within AutoDrafter (e.g., select a column member, right click, modify properties, change 'Member Type').
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Capacity Design as per NZS3404

Currently STAAD is performing only geometrical check of the members in accordance with Chapter 12 of NZS 3404. However, no design is performed based on the capacity design principles provided in this Chapter. As industries in New Zealand is increa...
Guest about 1 month 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 11 months ago in  2 Needs review

Can we transfer maximum thermal load ( thermal 1, thermal 2, thermal 3) from autoPIPE pipelink to STAAD.Pro.

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Silroy D'sa about 1 month ago in  0 Needs review

Add possibility to include B1 factor in Code checking Parameters with AISC 360 First Order Method

As per actual possibility provided by AISC 360, it is possible to perform design with Direct Analysis Method but also Effective Length Method and First Order method. In some case it is useful to do analysis with First order method (Dynamic Seismic...
Jean Gorsse 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Inclusion of SS EN 1998-1 Seismic Action & Accidental Torsion

Application of seismic action (including accidental torsion) for structure in Singapore using EN 1998-1 is cumbersome. Request to include this code in future development.
Guest 9 months ago in  2 Needs review

Immediate Steel Take Off

Add function to produce a steel take off immediately without having to run the full analysis.
Randy Killian almost 2 years ago in  5 Future consideration

Verification of User-Defined Steel Reinforcement

Good morning. It would be helpful if future versions included the option for the user to define the reinforcement layout, allowing STAAD Foundation Advanced to verify it — both for pedestals and foundations
Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Automatically generate Image Reports

Please add an option to generate an image report for every load case. The image report are showing how the forces are affecting the structure (see attached screenshots). Currently it is only possible to manually create a screenshot for each load c...
Michael Kikinzon over 2 years ago in  1 Needs review