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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    Preserve Analysis Results for Non-Structural Command File Changes

    Description: Currently, STAAD deletes all analysis results whenever the command file is modified, even for changes that do not affect the structural analysis—such as adding comments, defining groups, or creating envelopes. This forces users to rer...
    Brett Wyman 10 months ago in  2 Future consideration

    Automatic Load Scaling

    The floor loads in dead and live load cases are shown in some default scales. We can change the scale manually but it does not stay. Whenever the different load items from different load cases are selected the scale get reset. The user defined sca...
    Abhisek Mandal 8 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Update code from API RP2A 21st Edition currently used in STAAD PRO to API RP2A 22nd Edition

    API RP2A 21st edition is an old, superseded code. API RP2A 21st edition is NOT accepted by our Clients as a steel design code check for tubular members. API RP2A 22nd edition is accepted by our Clients. It would be straight forward for STAAD to up...
    Guest 11 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    updated versions of IS 1893 Part - 1 & IS 1893 Part – 4 to be made available for STAAD.Pro Users in India

    Updated versions of IS 1893 Part - 1 & IS 1893 Part – 4 to be made available for STAAD.Pro Users in India
    Guest 10 months ago in  3 Planned

    Allow hyphen character for UPT file name path

    Currently while importing the UPT file, we get a warning if file path of the UPT file contains hyphen (-). The warning is "File path contains invalid characters (-). Please remove such characters from the path and retry". Program should allow larg...
    Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 25 days ago in  1 Future consideration

    Retrieve STAAD model after sudden power cut

    During a sudden power cut, STAAD file and .sbk file got corrupted and the STAAD file content cannot be retrieved. Provide a method to retrieve the content of the STAAD file/.sbk file
    Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 25 days ago in  1 Future consideration

    Enhance Header Rendering to Ensure Resolution-Independent Display of fixed labels

    The header text elements “By” and “Ref” in Report, are wrapped on certain system resolution and scaling. Improve the UI implementation to ensure that header text elements: Render correctly across all supported resolutions and DPI scaling setting...
    Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 25 days ago in  1 Future consideration

    Staad.Pro: calculation because of creating new group

    When I create a new group - for example, from some beams, it is always necessary to perform a recalculation, but nothing changes in the structure - so the stiffness matrix is ​​the same - and nothing changes in the loads - so the load vector is th...
    Guest 4 months ago in  2 Already exists

    Extend the UPT PRISMATIC and GENERAL with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes

    Idea on behalf of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation The UPT Prismatic and General are to be extended with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes. Currently Shape Editor program calculates the sectional proper...
    Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 4 months ago in  2 Future consideration

    Request to Add “Reset to Default” Option for Plate Stress Contour Color Settings in STAAD

    Dear STAAD Development Team, I would like to suggest an enhancement in STAAD for the Plate Stress Contour color settings available under Diagrams → Plate Stress Contour. Currently, users can manually modify the color sequence/order used for stress...
    Guest 3 months ago in  2 Future consideration