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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OpenSTAAD Function to Renumber Node

We request to at the OpenSTAAD function to renumber Nodes just like we do with beams.
Kanagarasu Kandasamy 2 months ago in  1 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD Function to Redefine Member/Plate Incidence

There will be many occasions where a user wants to redefine the incidence of one or more members or plates. It would be helpful if there is an OpenSTAAD function to carry out this task as this saves a lot of effort and time. I understand that ther...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 5 months ago in  3 Already exists

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members, so that it will be used for additional checks as per Code
B Senthilkumar 10 months ago in  7 Future consideration

Automatic combinations should only include notional loads in the direction of the main lateral load

Hello, There’s no point in applying the notional load against other lateral loads. In STAAD, it’s possible that the Load Combination where automatically generated so the notional loads are generated for all directions even if they countermeasure t...
Jacques ARNOLD 5 months ago in  2 Needs review

Add live load reduction factor as design parameter

There is currently no efficient way to consider the live load reduction factor in STAAD.Pro. It would be fantastic to add a parameter to the design section (e.g., under CSA S16-19 or AISC 360-16) to consider a live load reduction on an element by ...
Guest 7 months ago in  4 Future consideration

Annotate Plate Stresses (Mx, My, Mxy, SQx, SQy)

Within the Annotation Menu, could you include Plates Stresses & Nodal Forces ? This will be very useful to display specific plate /nodal results during compilation of Structural reports. Given that the contours only show a range of values. Thi...
Ola Joda 3 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Keep Node Numbers From Physical Modeler

This might be difficult to implement, but it might be nice if you could label the node numbers in the physical modeler different than used in the analytical modeler so that you could keep those nodes the same. Therefore, they would show up the sam...
Ryan Freund 3 months ago in  3 Needs review

Auto wind load generation for roof/purlins..

Frequently used for design of all steel structure with shed/roof CONCERN CODE(ALL) especially IS 875 part 3: 1-Sir, staad CE has support the auto wind load as for clad/unclad buildings, this wind load is applied on the surfaces/periphery of buildi...
Sahil Shaikh over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

Moving Load Moving in Global Vertical Direction

The ability to apply horizontal moving loads that move in the vertical direction (up a column) (e.g. elevator loads on a column).
Jeremy Jacobs over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

Moving Loads Acting in Horizontal Directions

Provide the ability to have horizontal moving loads in addition to the vertical loads. For example, ASCE 7 requires cranes to be designed for vertical loads and horizontal loads. It would be great if STAAD had the ability to have both the vertical...
Jeremy Jacobs over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration