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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Generate equivalent lateral seismic force in Y direction using NBCC 2010/2015

I highly recommend to include calculation of vertical seismic load using NBCC 2010/2015 . I see it as a big gap in Staad Pro not to include calculation of vertical seismic loading using NBCC 2010/2015
Guest over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

FLOOR LOAD FAILURE

Improvement should be done on RC wall, during modelling on places of RC wall i don't place beam on top of the wall because the wall it self act as a beam,but when it comes to assign of floor load in places where there is no beam on RC wall the flo...
Joseph Lucas Magare over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Automatic creation of shear wall should be made available like etabs

Automatic creation of shear wall should be made available like etabs. Creating shear wall should have straight forward approach like etabs. in staad the approach is little tediuos
Guest over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Account for offset when doing intersection

Currently when you do the intersection of two beams, STAAD finds the intersection without taking into account any offsets the beams may have. The result is you have to manually move the node at the intersection if offsets are involved. This is mad...
Randy Killian over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Provide wind generation on Fireproof Members

STAAD does not consider the additional width of the fireproofed members; producing underestimated wind generated loads for open structures like piperacks. Please include this feature as this would make several of my colleagues happy.
Guest over 4 years ago in  0 Future consideration

MASONRY

Please I suggest to add MASONRY structures analysis & design in the next version of STAAD .
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Interactive Graphical Icon Display of Multiple Support conditions

On STAADPRO Connect Edition, the graphical display of support icon does not update in corresponding current load condition. It only shows the latest support definition whatever load case is being selected. Although forces and design results are sh...
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Custom equivalent lateral force procedure and seismic definition/custom model response in Staadpro CE

I am tasked with designing a steel support structure in Staadpro connect edition. As part of the design, I need to conduct a seismic analysis of the frame. The steel structure is 12 m high and needs to be designed according to the New Zealand seis...
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Curtailment of section in all three axes

We are using STAAD Pro for optimizing our designs. We deal in steel structures & we need to optimize it by curtailment in all the three axes, presently we can do curtailment in the web depth ( Taper I section). We want to reduce the width of t...
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Capability to export ISM File for whole steel structure including connections from RAM Connection.

After designing connections inside STAAD.Pro. From the finished design, export ISM to Pro-structures.
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration