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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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IMPLEMENTATION OF 4 PLATE WITH DIFFERENT THICKNESS

There is no option for 4 plates or tube beams with different thickness. Also, it could be fantastic an option with tapered tube section with different flange width or thickness
Guest 7 months ago in  1 Already exists

Waffle /Grid slab and flat slab

Heavy loaded structures...
Sahil Shaikh over 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

The STAAD.Pro model import to SACS

Now we can calculate the upstructure in STAAD.Pro for ocean engineer; But the pile will be designed in SACS for sea ice load and wave load. when the model is imported to SACS, the load will loss and need to apply load again in SACS. The workload i...
Guest almost 2 years ago in  1 Needs review

Add the ability to add wind loads to plate elements

It would be nice to be able to apply wind loads on plate elements. Especially given that there is a wind load definition specifically for tanks, but no way to model that tank other than plate elements. The alternatives are a cumbersome to implemen...
Dallin STRONG over 4 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Turkish Building Earthquake Code 2018 and TS 500

Türkiye de yaşayan mühendislerin programlarınızı kendi ülke standart ve kurallarına göre daha rahat kullanabilmeleri ve bunun paralelinde programlarınızın kullanım oranlarının artması doğrultusunda eklenmesi yaralı olacaktır.
Yahya Karadede almost 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Distinct OpenSTAAD objects for each instance of Staad (in Python)

OpenSTAAD objects for each instance of Staad help in interacting programmatically with multiple models simultaneously. In VBA it can be done by Set objOpenStaad = GetObject(staad path). Can you please share how to do the same thing in Python ?
Guest 7 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add Back to back properties of CF member

Kindly add the back-to-back properties of Lysaght C section (combinedly it becomes I- section) ,it is widely used in cold form structures.
Prashant Patil over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Shrink diagram enhancement

It would be helpful if the Shrink command under Structure Diagram would only shrink the members with released ends. This would make the diagrams look more like a design drawing and would make it easier to check that you have released the right mem...
Nick Wilde 8 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Moving load in vertical plane and horizontal plane as well.

As of now, moving load feature is available only in vertical plane. But moving load in horizontal plane isn't available yet. But, as per industry demand, moving load to be applied longitudinal and transverse direction, simultaneously. Staad pro s...
Sahil Shaikh over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Add live load reduction factor as design parameter

There is currently no efficient way to consider the live load reduction factor in STAAD.Pro. It would be fantastic to add a parameter to the design section (e.g., under CSA S16-19 or AISC 360-16) to consider a live load reduction on an element by ...
Guest over 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration