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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Built-up tapered section name

All tapered section name shows as a tapered . its very useful if staad pro show the tapered section show the section in the display- Tapered I- 300x6+200x8+150x8 if its uniform web depth Tapered I- (300-750)x6+200x8+150x8 if its tapered web depth ...
Guest 12 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Combined profile of a wide flange and channel as a single object

For Inclusion of built up section in standard I section combination with Channel section on top flange, which is widely used for gantry girder.
Guest almost 2 years ago in  5 Already exists

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 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Slab deflection plots

Currently the only way to check the deflection of a slab is to review the deflected shape of the shells' mesh, or in the tabulated results. It would be very useful if the contour plots for shells included the option to contour deflections as well ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

Steel AutoDrafter: Customized Offset Distance

Steel Auto-Drafter draws member releases with a 20mm offset by default. The user would like to set this offset distance to an arbitrary distance. Additionally, the user would like to set separate distances for each of the following members: ...
Abhisek Mandal over 2 years ago in  6 Future consideration

Moving load in vertical plane and horizontal plane as well.

As of now, moving load feature is available only in vertical plane. But moving load in horizontal plane isn't available yet. But, as per industry demand, moving load to be applied longitudinal and transverse direction, simultaneously. Staad pro s...
Sahil Shaikh 8 months ago in  0 Needs review

Update Canada steel structure design standard to CSA S16 :2024

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Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Integration OpenSTAAD with python

I consider that the way of using openstaad with VBA is somewhat tedious due to the characteristics of that programming language, therefore, my idea is to propose an openstaad repository but focused on python, which, in my opinion, would facilitate...
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Add to STAAD Physical Modeler Vehicle/ Moving Loading

Physical Modeler Loading should include Moving Load /Vehicle. If you are following Physical modeler workflow there is no Vehicle or Moving load options, which is only allowed thru Analytical Model and to use that feature, only way would be to drop...
Guest 4 months ago in  1 Needs review

simplification of Chinese steel design

As per Chinese code design, we suppose to create lot of design parameter to perform the design. it is taking lot of time for controlling all the design parameter. can you make it simplified like regular STAAD pro design?
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review