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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Structure discontinuties not allowed for dynamic analysis

Structure discontinuties provided for thermal expansion isn't allowed in dynamic analysis, so provide feature so that we can analyse such structure without separating the model in individual file..
Sahil Shaikh over 1 year ago in  2 Already exists

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

Design Lacing and battening column to IS800:2007

Widely used in industry
Sahil Shaikh over 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve Errors and Warnings

Currently OpenSTAAD provides OpenSTAADUI:AnalyzeEx() which upon completion of the analysis returns an integer indicating the status analysis. However, it will be helpful if there is a function which provides more information about the Errors and W...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  3 Future consideration

Report for pictures of the structure.

Staad should have one option which helps to create a report of node labels ( tier/levewise) for whole structure. Also a report of beam labels ( tier / levelwise) for the whole structure. Also report of section property ( tier/levelwise) for whole ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

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

Generate Rotate command automatically creates new beta angles and assign for the affected rotated members

When you use the Generate Rotate command, the beta angles remains the same so you have to uptade member by member the new beta angle for the non-orthogonal elements that were affected. The idea is a custom tool that automatically creates the new b...
Arthur Magalhães 7 months ago in  1 Will not implement

OpenSTAAD Function for Creating a Section using Profile Polygon

StaadPro provides the option to create a custom open section by defining a profile polygon (refer to the snapshot attached). Sections created this can be visualized as 3D objects when rendered instead of just showing a simple line. This helps in c...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  2 Future consideration

STAIR WIZARD IN PARAMETRIC MODEL

I propose a stair wizard to be added in parametric model so as to save time of stair modelling in STAAD.Pro, this wizard should include different types of stairs with reference coordinate to be inserted in a model
Joseph Lucas Magare over 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

Edit Member selection in Steel AutoDrafter

Useful when passing drawing to drafting team as they don't have to edit the received drawing, wasting their valuable time.
Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Needs review