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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    Ecentricity Consideration during wind load as per ASCE

    While applying wind load based on the attached ASCE provisions for all height cases with a rigid diaphragm roof, it appears that STAAD.Pro does not consider eccentricity. It would be beneficial for users if this aspect could be incorporated in fut...
    Guest 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Physical Modeler for Wind Load ASCE 7-22 Attributes Assignment

    Designers of buildings using the Physical Modeler would benefit since they need to use the current ASCE 7-22 code.
    Milton Manos 11 months 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 over 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    In wind load generator, please incorporate wind load in other directions such as X & Z. Also, wind load on roof truss & corners needs to be incorporated.

    There is no way to add wind load in other direction in case of unclad building. For example : - staad taking load case only in one direction i.e. +X, whenever I try to add another case in z direction, previous case gets deleted automatically. So, ...
    Shubhankar Chatterjee over 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    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 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    (**ERROR: ONLY RECTANGLE, SQUARE AND CIRCULAR SECTIONS ARE DESIGNED AS COLUMN. MEMBER # "XXX" WILL NOT BE DESIGNEDError should be mentioned/enlisted about reinforcement ties/stirrups types instead of rectangle or square and circular section assignments. this is misleading understanding of error.

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    Dharmik Dodiya 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    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 4 years ago in  6 Future consideration

    Serviceability Check threshold SET command

    Provide an additional SET command for users to use in the serviceability checks for collinearity which is currently hard coded as 1 degree. Refer Feature (PBI) #1668294
    Abhisek Mandal 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Development of Direct Analysis Method in Chinese Standards GB50017-2017

    In accordance with current Chinese standards, develop and update the Direct Analysis Method similar to other comparable finite element software (including automatic application of overall imperfections, member imperfections, etc.). Inquiry company...
    Eileen Yin 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    STAAD Analysis and Design Dialog Font Changed

    Users have reported that the font in the Analysis and Design dialogs of STAAD.Pro suddenly appears significantly larger and thicker, without any intentional change to: Windows display scaling Windows text size STAAD.Pro user or display setti...
    Abhisek Mandal 6 months ago in  0 Needs review