STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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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 5 years ago in  5 Future consideration

The name of the load can be modified

When there are many types of load definitions, it is difficult to distinguish which one each load is. If you can customize the name, it will be easier to distinguish and verify
Guest 12 months ago in  5 Already exists

Add fire calculation in staad.pro

according to GB 51249-2017, steel structure needs to do the fire calculation and corresponding design. There are more and more security reviews about fire calculation, therefore it's necessary to add these content in staad.pro.
Guest 12 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Getting Ratio of the design calculation by OpenStaad API

There is no command to get the design calculation results in OpenStaad and I would like you to provide it.
Hidetaka Kaida almost 2 years ago in  5 Future consideration

Section Diagram to represent Web thickness as old STAAD pro versions

easy way to find the section properties . Also all the flange width and thickness and web depth is coming except web thickness
Guest 6 months ago in  1 Already exists

Universal Setting for Design Results Colour

It would be useful to be able to a universal setting for different colors for different range of utilization ratios in the model to visually inspect. Right now they are only File Specific which means I will have to manually change the utilisation ...
Guest about 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Calculation of Stability index Q as per annex E of IS456

To determine whether a column is a no sway or a sway column, stability index Q may be computed as given in annex-e of IS456. It's a very time consuming and cumbersome calculation while we are freezing the column sizes. if Q is directly calculated ...
Guest about 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

Add the design parameters for plate design as a member. In stairs the plate design is very frequently using.

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Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

MEMBER FORCES - GLOBAL Coordinate System

STAAD cannot report Beam Results in the Global Coordinate Systems in the UI Results Table. However, it is capable of printing Member Forces using the Global Coordinate System to the Analysis Report. This hinders downstream processes that require t...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed about 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Member property display units- Shift+X

In spite of selecting Metric units for member section properties at the beginning of a new model (considering Indian codes), while checking the member sections during modelling and analysis, the member properties are getting displayed in FPS units...
ABHISHEK Ramesh 7 months ago in  1 Already exists