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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    Direct Analysis Method with Tension-Only members

    Just as the title. To be able to analyze a structure with Tension-Only members using the Direct Analysis Method.
    Saul Cuen over 2 years ago in  1 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 almost 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    Shrink diagram enhancement

    It would be helpful if the Shrink command under Structure Diagram would only shrink the members with released ends. This would make the diagrams look more like a design drawing and would make it easier to check that you have released the right mem...
    Nick Wilde 5 months 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 about 3 years ago in  6 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 over 2 years ago in  5 Already exists

    Convert beams to shells for FEA

    It would be great to be able to mesh a STAAD stick model using the assigned profiles (i.e. having the software replace the beam with a set of plates to match the flange/web sizes and thicknesses) in order to do some high level finite element analy...
    Guest about 1 year ago in  3 Needs review

    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 almost 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

    For concrete design, DESIGN LOAD case should show to critical load case, regardless if minimum rebar is enough

    When I model a concrete column in Staad.Pro, and perform the design, if the minimum rebar, lets say 1% is good enough for all load cases, the design load reported in the screen is the first load case. I understand because that rebar is OK for all ...
    Saul Cuen 5 months ago in  1 Planned

    Import support reaction at base in SFA

    User use different software for modelling building depending on how much user-friendly the software is. Now reactions at base level are required to design mat or any footing for which SFA can be used. But since there is no option like in earlier o...
    Chandrashekar Prabhudesai 10 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Add tapered rectangular tube section r2

    Extend the current tapered tube definition to allow for the specification and analysis of tapered rectangular tube profiles (i..e where the length of the two side dimensions differs). Currently STAAD.Pro supports the definition and analysis of tap...
    Guest over 2 years ago in  1 Already exists