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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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ADD Z section under user table manger option

As the use of cold form sections becomes more prevalent, it's essential for STAAD to support C and Z shapes more comprehensively. These sections vary significantly across manufacturers and are not always available in the STAAD database. Furthermor...
RAHUL BRIJPUIYA 7 months ago in  1 Already exists

HAT SECTION WITH LIPS

Kindly make provision for Hat section with Lips( straight lip and inclined lip) in the section database. Please make it such a way that if we enter the depth, width, thickness and give "generate" and all the properties gets generated automatically...
browin david over 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Repeat the node/beam/plate and loadcase number on each line of the result tables

-In order to easily sort the results in Excel when importing a Result table, it would be a lot more helpful to repeat the node number on each row of the Support Reactions table & Displacements table. -Same comment for the beam number and L/C o...
Sébastien Julien almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function for Circular Repeat

Is there a function to carry out the Circular Repeat (similar to DoTranslationalRepeat)?. If not, is it possible to introduce this function?
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  3 Planned

OpenSTAAD function to control meshing of a parametric surface

At present we can define, generate mesh and commit the mesh using the parametric surface functions exposed by OpenSTAAD. However, many times passing the meshing parameters programmatically such as Meshing Type, Boundary Connectivity is important t...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  1 Future consideration

divide/ split a plate element in the physical modeler by using reference line

request to add a future to split/divide a plate element in physical modeler by using a reference line
Guest over 2 years ago in  3 Already exists

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 about 6 years ago in  5 Future consideration

base pressure contour is not available for the envelope of the loads

Base pressure contour for raft footing is available for the envelop of the loads in Space Gass but not in STAAD. It is important to have this feature be implemented in STAAD too to facilitate the raft footing design based on allowable bearing pres...
Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Already exists

IMPLEMENTATION OF 4 PLATE WITH DIFFERENT THICKNESS

There is no option for 4 plates or tube beams with different thickness. Also, it could be fantastic an option with tapered tube section with different flange width or thickness
Guest 7 months ago in  1 Already exists

Automatic combinations should only include notional loads in the direction of the main lateral load

Hello, There’s no point in applying the notional load against other lateral loads. In STAAD, it’s possible that the Load Combination where automatically generated so the notional loads are generated for all directions even if they countermeasure t...
Jacques ARNOLD over 2 years ago in  2 Needs review