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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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Enhance the paste dialog for node, beam, plate and solid table to include entity numbers

Enhance the paste dialog for node, beam, plate and solid table to include entity numbers from Excel. Currently, the program considers only the fields where you can provide input, here in this case of Node Table they are the coordinate columns. Hen...
Abhisek Mandal 7 months ago in  0 Needs review

Request to Implement ETABS‑Like Interactive Database Feature in STAAD

In ETABS, there is an option called Interactive Database, which allows the user to export any table to Excel, modify the data as needed, and then re‑import the updated information back into ETABS. This process is simple, user‑friendly, and easy to...
RAHUL BRIJPUIYA 7 months ago in  0 Needs review

ENABLE DESIGN MODELING FOR CORRUGATED STEEL DECK DIAPHRAGMS

Section 12.3 of ASCE 7 - 22 states that unless a diaphragm can be idealized as either flexible or rigid, structural analysis should explicitly include consideration of the stiffness of the diaphragm (i.e. semirigid modeling). I am publishing an ar...
Guest about 1 year ago in  2 Needs review

TO ADD DOUBLE ANGLE FRONT TO FRONT SECTION IN DATABASE

WHILE CREATING A LATTICE FRAME WE NEED TO OPT FOR TWO ANGLES APART FRONT TO FRONT, BUT AS OFF NOW STAAD ONLY PROVIDES DOUBLE ANGLE WITH BACK TO BACK CONFIGURATION AND NOT FRONT TO FRONT, THUS IT IS REQUESTED TO ADD UP DOUBLE ANGLE SECTION WITH FRO...
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Add tapered rectangular tube section r2

Extend the current tapered tube definition to allow for the specification and analysis of tapered rectangular tube profiles (i..e where the length of the two side dimensions differs). Currently STAAD.Pro supports the definition and analysis of tap...
Guest about 3 years ago in  1 Already exists

State the code basis for utilization ratio tables in reports

In STAAD 2023, if a report is created and the Utilization Ratio table is included, a critical Clause is listed for each member. However, there is no indication in/above the table of which code, or code version, that the Clause pertains to. Please ...
Steve Haymore about 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

AISC Seismic Provisions. Print Warnings for TRACK 0

This idea is submitted on behalf of Melvin Nicolas, from Siemens. Currently, STAAD.Pro does not print any warnings when the SEICMIC 1 and TRACK 0 commands are assigned. If the TRACK 2 command is introduced, many new warnings may be printed in the ...
Ricardo Pichardo 7 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Slab deflection plots

Currently the only way to check the deflection of a slab is to review the deflected shape of the shells' mesh, or in the tabulated results. It would be very useful if the contour plots for shells included the option to contour deflections as well ...
Guest almost 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Include reactions from control nodes in the Statics Checks summary

This idea is submitted on behalf of Michael Mills from Payne-Huber Engineering STAAD.Pro won't currently include the reactions from Control Nodes in the Statics Check. Although this is documented (TR.28.1 Control/Dependent Specification), it can l...
Ricardo Pichardo 7 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Make the detailed AISI design output available in the Reports Workflow

This idea is submitted on behalf of Cameron Empey from Betchtel. There's no way to include the TRACK 2 AISI output in the report. Please make that an available item to add. PBI Ref:1785991
Ricardo Pichardo 7 months ago in  1 Future consideration