STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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OpenSTAAD function to remove the unused isotropic materials

Staad by default adds some materials to the model (please refer to the snapshot attached). Majority of these will not be used during automation (as the materials will be created separately based on the need) and hence the materials section remains...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Show section shape from Section wizard

Hello dev team, As of now, STAAD cannot show the section shape from section wizard . This issue may make the engineer confuse about local axis even we can referent to the (v,u) axis. its will be good if STAAD can show the section shape that custom...
Support REI over 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

Ciudad de Mexico NTC code 2023

To update/include the specifications for mexican regulation for Ciudad de Mexico to the latest version 2023 which include loads specifications, seismic, wind, or at least the steel and concrete.
Guest 10 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Option to input load values in STAAD as a function F(x) where x varies ( e.g x= depth)

In recent times, I have been designing a large number of buried underground structures. (I figured many Engineers may have similar experiences on this too). For buried structures, a few of the applied loads are a function of a single variable i.e....
Ola Joda over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Plate Stresses Graphical Contours to be included in QUICK COMMANDS

Could you please add shortcut to view Plate stresses Graphical Contours ( Mx, My, Mxy, SQx, SQy, Sx, Sy) in the Customize quick commands Pop-Up shortcut using space bar. The current function only brings up tables which is a bit cumbersome when mak...
Ola Joda over 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

automatic generation of wind load

The automatic generation of wind load should be made available to Indian code also apart from American code. It will save lot of time in analysis and manual calculation.
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Already exists

Assigning DJ1 / DJ2 to a model to define start/end of members must improve

To be forced to go assign both a node # and every member between 2 nodes for a few beams is not a big deal but when it's a giant model, it takes days to assign these values for deflection checks. Something must be done to make this more user frien...
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Provision to interchange the local axis of elements in STAAD

Please find the combination of three models by different engineer. Under this when finally local stresses are checked, the contours are not smooth. if by any chance local axis of elements can be change, this will same a valuable time of re modelli...
Ankur Jain over 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

IS800:2007 result from multiple design blocks

Currently, if there are multiple design blocks present in a STAAD model, in the post-processing utilization table, design ratio from the last design block is reported. It is very common to define multiple design blocks with different set of parame...
Surojit Ghosh over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Structure discontinuties not allowed for dynamic analysis

Structure discontinuties provided for thermal expansion isn't allowed in dynamic analysis, so provide feature so that we can analyse such structure without separating the model in individual file..
Sahil Shaikh over 2 years ago in  2 Already exists