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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 Feature to Customize & Save Preferred Workspace Settings/ GUI View Management

Engineering work flow requires quick visual assessments of results and modification of structural models until a satisfactory solution is achieved. Hence, as part of the time saving ideas for reviewing structural models, May I suggest that the Wor...
Ola Joda almost 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Non linear time history analysis in staad pro CE

Non linear time history analysis still not implemented in staad pro for different types of structure like residential, industrial structure etc, kindly add non linear time history analysis in staad CE as it gives realistic and more conservative an...
Sahil Shaikh almost 4 years ago in  2 Future consideration

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 almost 3 years 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 almost 3 years ago in  1 Will not implement

ADD Z section under user table manger option

As the use of cold form sections becomes more prevalent, it's essential for STAAD to support C and Z shapes more comprehensively. These sections vary significantly across manufacturers and are not always available in the STAAD database. Furthermor...
RAHUL BRIJPUIYA 12 months ago in  1 Already exists

Curved Surfaces

Provide a method for defining surfaces which curve out of plane so that they can be used to create curved walls
Carlos Aguera almost 5 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Spring Support

Spring supports are created only in a particular direction. For e.g. base/soil springs. negative displacement is considered as compression. what if a steel base plate is to be modelled below a concrete slab. There is no way to create a compression...
Guest almost 2 years ago in  4 Already exists

Extend PRINT CG for plates and solids

It will be very helpful for the estimation if PRINT CG command works for groups of plate and beams and solid also. This will give directly the weight and volume of certain part of model, which is most of the the basic parameter of optimization. Ri...
Ankur Jain almost 4 years ago in  3 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function for Circular Repeat

Is there a function to carry out the Circular Repeat (similar to DoTranslationalRepeat)?. If not, is it possible to introduce this function?
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 12 months ago in  3 Planned

OpenSTAAD function to control meshing of a parametric surface

At present we can define, generate mesh and commit the mesh using the parametric surface functions exposed by OpenSTAAD. However, many times passing the meshing parameters programmatically such as Meshing Type, Boundary Connectivity is important t...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 12 months ago in  1 Future consideration