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Function to Apply Hydrostatic Pressure using OpenSTAAD

It will be helpful if a function for applying the hydrostatic forces on plate elements either by selecting a group of plates or a selecting a single plate e.g., the PlateID and the pressure at four corners of the plate. Many a times applying the p...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam over 2 years ago in  2 Already exists

Calculator from the Input Editor / Command File

I wouldn't lie by saying that I'm a vivid user of the calculator from the withing the Input Editor/Command file. But at times when the Window's calculator crashes, Staad's calculator comes to the rescue. hoping to add a few suggestions: 1. rather ...
Dani Paul about 1 year ago in  1 Needs review

Need to remove warning for member duplicated

It is general practice if we assigned a new property for the members, the old property will be automatically replaced or deleted by the new one. No need to change or edit the property in input file for members one by one. But for some large file I...
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

Request Omitted Data from IBC/ASCE7 Seismic Load Generator

There is no method, report, or output command available to display the "k" coefficient used by the program for vertical distribution of seismic base shear per ASCE 7-16, Eq 12.8-2. Since this value can vary with the period it needs to be reported ...
Guest about 1 year ago in  2 Needs review

Turkish Seismic Code

Provide the Turkish Seismic Code (TBSC-2018) which was updated in 2018 for static seismic and response spectrum loading. Code attached.
Guest over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Section properties edit to remember previous selection

When you open a Section from the Properties panel by double-click, you are prompted to the same Table, including section type as the one you double-clicked. That is OK. But the table is just opened regardless of what section size or configuration ...
Saul Cuen over 2 years ago in  1 Already exists

Pipelink Improvement

The pipelink transfer of loads from AutoPIPE to STAAD is currently very limited for guide-type supports and other multi-direction supports. A guide support will have vertical loads as well as lateral loads. Depending on the direction of the latera...
Michael Wood over 2 years ago in  5 Needs review

FLAT SLAB, RIBBED SLAB AND WAFFLE SLAB

May you please include the design of waffle slab, ribbed slab and flat slab in rcdc
Joseph Lucas Magare about 5 years ago in  1 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to turn on members stress ratio.

To streamline the design process using the OpenSTAAD function, we aim to automate the visualization of member stress ratios for each analysis. Currently, when employing the "objOpenSTAAD.View.SetModeSectionPage 1, 6, 19" function, the stress ratio...
Kanagarasu Kandasamy over 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Beam numbering in output file of RCDC

Beam FB111 is secondary beam and beam FB347 to FB350 is primary beam. We want beam numbering reverse. Primary beam should have one number and secondary beam should split into four different numbers. We don't want group name in output file.
Swapnil Chaugule over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review