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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Inclusion of SS EN 1998-1 Seismic Action & Accidental Torsion

Application of seismic action (including accidental torsion) for structure in Singapore using EN 1998-1 is cumbersome. Request to include this code in future development.
Guest about 2 months ago in  2 Needs review

Add latest US Aluminum Design Code

STAAD.Pro has offered aluminum design and ASD code checking for many years based on the 1994 Aluminum Design Manual. Since that publication was issued 26 years ago, there have been five subsequent versions released in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2...
Steve Haymore over 2 years ago in  6 Future consideration

In India we are using HAT section with lip but in staad pro we are not able design this section and it create lots of problem to all users in India to convince clients. So, Please add this section property in your section database.

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Guest about 2 months ago in  1 Will not implement

Request Omitted Data from IBC/ASCE7 Seismic Load Generator

There is no method, report, or output command available to display the "k" coefficient used by the program for vertical distribution of seismic base shear per ASCE 7-16, Eq 12.8-2. Since this value can vary with the period it needs to be reported ...
Guest 30 days ago in  1 Needs review

5% accidental eccentricity as per Eurocode 1998:2004, using response spectra method

The accidental eccentricity in staad pro. as per Eurocode 1998:2004, while analyzing the structure for seismic loads using response spectra method.
Guest 3 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Make it easier to see the full design of individually selected steel members

Create a default way to see the design of one or multiple selected steel beams. Once I select code and "design all". I would like to be able to click on one or more beams and instantly have a button to view the full design input and output. I beli...
Ryan Freund over 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Integration OpenSTAAD with python

I consider that the way of using openstaad with VBA is somewhat tedious due to the characteristics of that programming language, therefore, my idea is to propose an openstaad repository but focused on python, which, in my opinion, would facilitate...
Guest 4 months ago in  1 Already exists

Spring Support

Spring supports are created only in a particular direction. For e.g. base/soil springs. negative displacement is considered as compression. what if a steel base plate is to be modelled below a concrete slab. There is no way to create a compression...
Guest 2 months ago in  4 Already exists

Beam utilization listing with drop down box

The "actual ratio" button in postprocessing mode is not working for a lot of users in Subsea7. This button is supposed to re-arrange beam utilizations from default beam number order, to utilization ascending order, and is very helpful. The problem...
Guest about 1 month ago in  2 Needs review

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 4 months ago in  2 Future consideration