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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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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

Automatic Plate Meshing

Set parameters and have the program create a plate mesh automatically for finite element analysis.
Guest almost 2 years ago in  5 Already exists

WIND CORNER PRESSURE AND ROOF IN WIND LOAD GENERATOR

Hello i would like to drop my suggestion for consideration, as we know up to now Wind Load generator, can only generate wind on panels. But during design we may have to apply corner wind pressure especially in connection design and also to apply w...
Joseph Lucas Magare about 3 years ago in  2 Needs review

STAAD PRO TO 3D PDF

There should be a way to convert STAAD model to 3D pdf. It will become easy for designers to hover over the model and get clear view of the geometry while modelling in 3D softwares. Inspite of inputs provided, they will have access to 3D pdf where...
Guest almost 2 years ago in  4 Already exists

Stress Ratio Results for Multiple Load Cases

Show code check results for more than just the worst case. Should be able to see what the next worst, and next worse after that and so on. It's been over 10 years since I used it but I believe SACS does this. If so, could take a look at it.
Randy Killian over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to extract plate corner stresses.

Anyone who perform post-processing/detailed analysis on plated structures will benefit from this. The function could take a plate ID and loadcase as input, and give plate corner stresses for all corners as output.
Nikolai Aasprong over 2 years ago in  1 Already exists

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members, so that it will be used for additional checks as per Code
B Senthilkumar over 2 years ago in  7 Future consideration

AUTOMATIC BUCKLING EUROCODE COEFFICIENTS C1,C2,C3 and K.

For the eurocode to calculate automatically the factors C1,C2,C3 to calculate correctely the Mcr value for elements. Which depends on the bending moment diagram, loading type and support conditions.
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

Add 75Deg had section database

in standard section data base only 90Deg hat is available, we are mostly using 75Deg hat
Guest 8 months ago in  2 Needs review

Report Header Needs Line for "Subject" - STAAD.Pro 2024

STAAD.Pro 2024 output data is published via the Reports module. That data for one structural model can be used to present different subjects. Unfortunately, the 2024 report pages do not include a line in the header to show the "SUBJECT" of that pr...
Guest over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration