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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Add an Autosave Feature

Please consider adding an autosave feature. A real autosave not a prompt that appears every so often minutes asking you to save. One that will autosave without input. Autosave is pretty much a standard now across a variety of softwares, so constan...
Dallin STRONG almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

section detail backup

every time when we update software, it should be notified to take necessary backup of added section for cold form, it is really painful doing same work in 1-2 month while software is being updated. it will save designerr time
Guest almost 3 years ago in  1 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 almost 3 years ago in  6 Future consideration

Extend the Take off Command to Plate elements

It'd be nice to be able to use the take-off command on plate elements. Similarly to beams where the take off give the section, length, and weight. Having the take off give thickness, area, and weight would be really helpful.
Dallin STRONG almost 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Latest Australian steel design code

Need latest Australian code- AS 4100- 2020 and As 3600-2018 to be implemented in staad urgently for our project execution.
Guest almost 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Seismic load generation - Australian Code

The seismic load generation facility as per Australian code (AS 1170.4) is missing in STAAD.Pro. As such users working on projects in the Australian region will greatly benefit if this facility is included in the program.
Suvadeep Acharjee almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

HAT SECTION WITH LIPS

Kindly make provision for Hat section with Lips( straight lip and inclined lip) in the section database. Please make it such a way that if we enter the depth, width, thickness and give "generate" and all the properties gets generated automatically...
browin david almost 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Add New Zealand concrete design (NZS 3101) to Staad Pro

These could be used when performing member or shell design in STAAD.Pro, as well as Advanced Concrete design. See applicable snapshots attached. User would like to be able to do design to NZ codes in STAAD.Pro (specifically concrete and timber,...
Ranjana Shinde almost 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Non linear time history analysis in staad pro CE

Non linear time history analysis still not implemented in staad pro for different types of structure like residential, industrial structure etc, kindly add non linear time history analysis in staad CE as it gives realistic and more conservative an...
Sahil Shaikh about 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Make Staad Multi Processor (Multi-Threaded)

This would cut down the analysis time required by STAAD significantly. If it is too much work to change the solver code to benefit from multi-threads, can at least each basic load or each load combination be run at a different thread? There's no r...
Rafael Salgado about 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration