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OpenSTAAD Function to Redefine Member/Plate Incidence

There will be many occasions where a user wants to redefine the incidence of one or more members or plates. It would be helpful if there is an OpenSTAAD function to carry out this task as this saves a lot of effort and time. I understand that ther...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam over 1 year ago in  3 Already exists

Include some basic Sort functions & Search Functions in STAAD Results Table

Please could you incorporate some "basic functions" of Excel spreadsheet Tables into "STAAD Results table". This could be a row (with drop down tools) at the Top of the results tables. At the very least, just a few of these functions may help such...
Ola Joda over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to remove the unused isotropic materials

Staad by default adds some materials to the model (please refer to the snapshot attached). Majority of these will not be used during automation (as the materials will be created separately based on the need) and hence the materials section remains...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam almost 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Show section shape from Section wizard

Hello dev team, As of now, STAAD cannot show the section shape from section wizard . This issue may make the engineer confuse about local axis even we can referent to the (v,u) axis. its will be good if STAAD can show the section shape that custom...
Support REI almost 2 years ago in  1 Will not implement

Option to input load values in STAAD as a function F(x) where x varies ( e.g x= depth)

In recent times, I have been designing a large number of buried underground structures. (I figured many Engineers may have similar experiences on this too). For buried structures, a few of the applied loads are a function of a single variable i.e....
Ola Joda almost 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Plate Stresses Graphical Contours to be included in QUICK COMMANDS

Could you please add shortcut to view Plate stresses Graphical Contours ( Mx, My, Mxy, SQx, SQy, Sx, Sy) in the Customize quick commands Pop-Up shortcut using space bar. The current function only brings up tables which is a bit cumbersome when mak...
Ola Joda almost 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Function to Apply Hydrostatic Pressure using OpenSTAAD

It will be helpful if a function for applying the hydrostatic forces on plate elements either by selecting a group of plates or a selecting a single plate e.g., the PlateID and the pressure at four corners of the plate. Many a times applying the p...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam almost 2 years ago in  2 Already exists

Section properties edit to remember previous selection

When you open a Section from the Properties panel by double-click, you are prompted to the same Table, including section type as the one you double-clicked. That is OK. But the table is just opened regardless of what section size or configuration ...
Guest about 2 years ago in  1 Already exists

Pipelink Improvement

The pipelink transfer of loads from AutoPIPE to STAAD is currently very limited for guide-type supports and other multi-direction supports. A guide support will have vertical loads as well as lateral loads. Depending on the direction of the latera...
Michael Wood about 2 years ago in  5 Needs review

OpenSTAAD function to turn on members stress ratio.

To streamline the design process using the OpenSTAAD function, we aim to automate the visualization of member stress ratios for each analysis. Currently, when employing the "objOpenSTAAD.View.SetModeSectionPage 1, 6, 19" function, the stress ratio...
Kanagarasu Kandasamy about 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration