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 flexible / Semi rigid Diaphragm

Currently only rigid diaphragm option exists in Staad, we need to account for flexible diaphragms.
Guest about 1 month ago in  0 Needs review

Story Shear for Wind and Seismic Loads:

At present, only storey drift & displacements are reported. There is a need to include storey shear values for both the X and Z directions to support comprehensive analysis.- There is an enhancement request already in place for this. For Euroc...
Guest about 1 month ago in  2 Needs review

Modelling and Design of tapered channel

I Need to design lot of platforms with cantilever beams. Tapered channel is easy to fabricate in plate and most economical section for cantilever conditions. Hence I request you to include this options in the staad. Moreover, tapered I is already ...
Guest 3 months ago in  3 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Do not show "Rigid" Member Symbol if member is a free end

AutoDrafter currently shows a rigid member symbol when a member has a free end with no other members connecting to that location. It would be great to remove these redundant symbols
Guest 4 months ago in  1 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Manual Section Size Mark ID

Please allow users to manually override Mark IDs that are generated by AutoDrafter.
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Clicking "Open in Microstation" does not work for OpenBuildings Designer

Please add support for OpenBuildings Designer being able to open drawings from AutoDrafter.
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

AutoDrafter - Allow Manual Assignment of Member/Connection Type

AutoDrafter appears to have some automated rules that are not perfect; would be nice to be able to override Member/Connection Type within AutoDrafter (e.g., select a column member, right click, modify properties, change 'Member Type').
Guest 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add possibility to include B1 factor in Code checking Parameters with AISC 360 First Order Method

As per actual possibility provided by AISC 360, it is possible to perform design with Direct Analysis Method but also Effective Length Method and First Order method. In some case it is useful to do analysis with First order method (Dynamic Seismic...
Jean Gorsse 4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Auto load combination for IS 802 part 4

It will be better is auto load combination for following IS codes, IS 802 Part 1/Sec1 2015 - Clause 13 - For Transmission tower Design IS 802 Part 4 2023 - Clause 13 - For latticed switchyard structure Design As of now only design code of IS 802 i...
Pandiaraja Veluchamy 5 months ago in  0 Needs review

Beam Orientation arrows - scale/size

In STAAD.Pro Advanced 2024, please add tool to adjust the scale (size) of the "Beam Orientation" arrows. it is impossible to distinguish from one member to another with the arrows so large.... this was an isolated view of a portion of a much large...
Jim Rudelich 5 months ago in  0 Needs review