STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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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 about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Lateral Drift as per Verco Decking

Provide a method to provide the design data to calculate the lateral drift using the methods provided by Verco Decking inc. https://vercodeck.com/
Carlos Aguera about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

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 about 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 about 1 year ago in  1 Planned

Update CANADA/NRC seismic load calculation

Currently the latest NBC in the STAAD seimsic load generator is 2010. The changes for 2015 NBC are essentially none, and 2020 NBC is coming into force soon as well. This should be a pretty easy fix
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Select custom section property types using a design parameter

We have recently encountered an issue whereby the software will automatically assume that a custom section is an I-section (W-Section) for code checking purposes. This is not ideal if the section is, for example a modified RHS section, for which t...
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Needs review

Add "highlight assigned geometry" checkbox to the Loads window

Adding "highlight assigned geometry" checkbox to the Loads window would be a beneficial feature to see what members loads are applied to. It would also be more consistent with the other tabs: Properties, Specifications, etc.
Ryan Cates about 1 year ago in  1 Planned

Wind Loading on Tapered Sections

Dear Colleagues, // STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition - Version 22.12.00.142 // there was a situation where we had to find out the lateral forces due to wind on a light pole (tapered profile) and provide suitable support for the same. Wind was applied usi...
Dani Paul about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Make Material Definition properties apply for steel design

Currently, according to Bentley Support, the Material Definition properties are only used in the Connection Design module and are not used for steel design & code checking. The SGR, FYLD, FU parameters must be used instead to define the materi...
Michael Wood about 1 year ago in  5 Future consideration

Pipelink Transfer Loading Improvement

The Transfer Loading dialog in the Piping workflow is limited in functionality. It could be improved by adding a checkbox to change the Action and Class columns for all loads. If I want to change all the loads to primary loads, it is very tedious ...
Michael Wood about 1 year ago in  1 Planned