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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Getting Ratio of the design calculation by OpenStaad API

There is no command to get the design calculation results in OpenStaad and I would like you to provide it.
Hidetaka Kaida over 1 year ago in  5 Future consideration

I sections with side plates

It is suggested to add I sections with side plates table under specifications user table manager tabs. Offshore brownfiled modificaitons work would involve adding side plates to existing I sections to increase its capacity.
Guest 8 months ago in  1 Needs review

Use Center of the Structure as rotation Center

The Orientation Settings window provides the option "Use the center of the structure as the rotation center". However, when i perform the "Display Whole Structure" function, the rotation center is reset to 0,0,0. This happens when the Orientation ...
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Modeling & designing of different types of staircase

Staad pro should have an option to model each and every type of staircase like single flight (straight)stairs,dog ledged strair, spiral stair, U shape stairs,L shape stairs,winder, double winder, 2 quarter winder, 2 quarter landing,curved staircas...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  1 Will not implement

WIND CORNER PRESSURE AND ROOF IN WIND LOAD GENERATOR

Hello i would like to drop my suggestion for consideration, as we know up to now Wind Load generator, can only generate wind on panels. But during design we may have to apply corner wind pressure especially in connection design and also to apply w...
Joseph Lucas Magare over 1 year ago in  2 Needs review

Modeling of trapezoidal pattern plates (for raft foundation) in staad pro

Till now, staad pro has an option to assign plates of various thickness, but it should also have an option to model such plates in TRAPEZOIDAL PATTERN as shown in below images,which is frequently used to model raft foundation, also placement and b...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  1 Already exists

Rigid diaphragm on inclined floor/pitched floor/roof

Staad pro doesn't support for modelling of rigid diaphragm for inclined floor/inclined slab/inclined roof, so that response spectrum analysis can not be achieved in this case, so it is necessary to implement feature of modelling rigid diaphragm/se...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  1 Already exists

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 about 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

Steel structure optimization for tapered sections and built-up section

Optimization of steel structure in staad pro as per (Indian code like IS-800 _2007, IS-801 etc. has many limitations till now. It has to be resolved earlier, Some of limitations are ~ optimization for tapered sections not supported by staad ~ opti...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  1 Needs review

Implementation of IS 16700: 2023 in staad pro

Now a days, construction of high rise building are very common in India, and it is very necessary to implement code for the same like IS 16700 with new amendments in 2023, kindly implement the same in staad as early stage, with all clauses like co...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  1 Needs review