STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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Postprocessing member design/revision without re-run analysis

Currently after run analysis we can see the status of design in postprocessing. If fail design appear, now we have to edit and rerun all model and check if edition is good or not. When only 5~10% of members fails, and in large models, this is very...
Guest almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

implementation of design of double ISMB Box section profile while designing in code IS-800-2007-LSD.

When we are assigning ISMB 400*450 Box Section (Double Profile) while designing in Code IS-800-2007-LSD , Members are not able to design & Error coming. Kindly resolve the issue.
Guest almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Add Functionality to run a Direct Analysis following AISC 360 C.2a

Unless I am mistaken in order to run a direct analysis, you specify notional loads. However, per the specification it is allowable to use direct modeling of imperfections per C.2a. There is a way to specify camber and drift for members, but from w...
Dallin STRONG almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

It would be nice to be able to list the allowable stress in a report

SAMPLE BUCKLING LENGTH ALLOWABLESTRESS MEMB LY(m) LZ(m) UNL(m) KY KZ UNF FA(N/mm2) FT(N/mm2) FCZ(N/mm2) 1001 1.000 2.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 93.400 156.670 138.250 1002 2.500 5.000 2.500 1.000 1.000 1.000 93.400 156.670 138.250 1003 4.000 8.00...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Show design ratio for concrete members as is shown for steel members

When designing concrete members in Staad.Pro, detailed design information can be seen in batch mode using TRACK command. One useful detail is the design ratio Pu/Pn. If that value can be shown the same way is shown for steel design it can speed up...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Add SPAN command similar to SACS instead of DJ1 and DJ2

It is painful task to add DJ1 and DJ2 for deflection check in design paramter. Instead create SPAN command , which allows to add a set of members in a SPAN command to calculation local y and z deflection and actual DFF against allowable DFF. This ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

Tapered Sections naming in STAAD.Pro

I think it is a good idea to allow users to name their Tapered sections as with the prismatic sections or sections created by user table. Because many times user creates many tapered sections in his model, andt when it comes to modifying one of th...
Guest almost 5 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Size of joint release and beam orientations

In Staad, is there any way to reduce the size of pin symbol and beam orientation symbol? Like support symbols. Thanks
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Design classification in Load Cases Definition

Include a Design category as part of the load case/combination definition so that when a design includes the load case/combination, it 'knows' how to consider the analysis results in the design without having to create a load envelope of a given t...
Carlos Aguera over 1 year ago in  0 Future consideration

Sorting function of member properties

A really useful feature for steel structures would be a function to sort all the section properties alphabetically/numerically. In large structures it becomes very hard to follow what section is what once you hit around 100 different section prope...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration