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 the newly released Indian Seismic Code IS 1893 (Part 1&5): 2025 in STAAD.Pro.

    Since STAAD.Pro currently supports earlier IS 1893 versions, having the 2025 version integrated will be essential to ensure code-compliant analysis and safe design in India. The 2025 revision introduces major updates: A revised earthquake zone m...
    Guest 9 months ago in  3 Planned

    Provide STAAD Foundation Advanced a method to manage the link to a STAAD.Pro model

    When a STAAD Foundation model is created from a STAAD.Pro model, that is added to the STAAD.Pro folder. This process creates pointers in both data sets that link the two models together and allow for notification when changes takes place. However,...
    Guest 7 months ago in  7 Future consideration

    Buckling analysis in standard Staad.Pro

    Please find an attached file.
    Guest 13 days ago in  3 Future consideration

    Add Seismic Load Definition for ASCE 7 Nonstructural Components

    Many nonstructural components use structural steel frames, such as equipment supports and pipe supports. These are designed to AISC rules but use the ASCE 7 Chapter 13 seismic design force instead of the Chapter 12 Equivalent Lateral Force procedu...
    Michael Wood about 1 month ago in  1 Planned

    Min/Max values of internal forces

    In the Postprocessor, we have three basic options for viewing internal forces on members: All, Summary and Envelope. The Summary option gives one table, where the maximum and minimum axial forces, shear forces and moments are, for example, in memb...
    Guest 28 days ago in  2 Will not implement

    Case CS0747486 - FAILED Irregularity not Highlighted in STAAD Output

    Any check which fails to comply the provisions of the relevant codes in Staad Analysis, if not highlighted in the output in a conspicuous manner and unfortunately overlooked by the user, could be fatal. While Staad output highlights the messages a...
    Guest 16 days ago in  1 Planned

    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 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    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 about 2 months ago in  2 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 2 months ago in  2 Already exists

    Outdated announcement

    Please find an attached file with explanation.
    Guest 18 days ago in  1 Planned