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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    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 6 years ago in  5 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

    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

    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

    Staad Pro does not include Seismic load NBCC 2015

    Dear All, I highly recommend to include calculation of seismic load using NBCC 2015. I see it as a big gap in Staad Pro not to include Seismic loading using NBCC 2015 Thanks a lot
    Guest over 5 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    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

    Add NZS 1170.5 code to Seismic Codes in STAAD

    STAAD does not have NZS 1170.5 in its Seismic Codes. Users in ANZ uses custom spectrum and factored it up to match the base shear. Adding this code will help the users in ANZ work directly with the NZ code and thus speed up their productivity. Use...
    Rudra Lahiri over 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

    Table providing summary of slenderness ratio's of structural steel members

    Helps in assessing the actual slenderness ratio of each member.Also, such table can be used to upgrade to next size for better load carrying capacity.
    Sreekanth Nuthanapati over 2 years ago in  1 Will not implement