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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    Steel AutoDrafter Implementation Required

    Dear Sir / Madam, Steel Auto Drafter is not giving beam presentation as per Releases provide in Analytical Modelling. Please check attached screenshot for your ready reference. Steel AutoDrafter drawings should be as per Release and Analytical mod...
    Keyur Patel about 2 years ago in  7 Future consideration

    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 3 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Auto wind load generation for roof/purlins..

    Frequently used for design of all steel structure with shed/roof CONCERN CODE(ALL) especially IS 875 part 3: 1-Sir, staad CE has support the auto wind load as for clad/unclad buildings, this wind load is applied on the surfaces/periphery of buildi...
    Sahil Shaikh over 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration

    Auto Wind load for roofing

    Implement a method to generate loading on roof structures as per the IS 875 part 3 wind load code using the Cpe method using the values in Table 8 / 9
    Sahil Shaikh over 3 years ago in  6 Future consideration

    include MERGE NODE, CONNECT BEAMS & COLLINEAR BEAMS under Node Tools

    it might also be helpful, if we can add the MERGE NODE tool in the "popup" Node tools when many nodes are selected (just like MERGE BEAM tool is included in the "popup" Beam tools) and the CONNECT BEAMS and COLLINEAR BEAMS tool also (to generate b...
    Dani Paul over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    Allow an option to include Failed Member list in the report even when there are no failed members

    In the new 2023 version, the new report builder doesn't allow you to include the failed member list when there aren't any failed members. v22 did allow for that and would report there are no failed members. Which was an easy concise way of saying ...
    Dallin STRONG about 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    Shrink diagram enhancement

    It would be helpful if the Shrink command under Structure Diagram would only shrink the members with released ends. This would make the diagrams look more like a design drawing and would make it easier to check that you have released the right mem...
    Nick Wilde 4 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Make Staad Multi Processor (Multi-Threaded)

    This would cut down the analysis time required by STAAD significantly. If it is too much work to change the solver code to benefit from multi-threads, can at least each basic load or each load combination be run at a different thread? There's no r...
    Rafael Salgado about 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    5% accidental eccentricity as per Eurocode 1998:2004, using response spectra method

    The accidental eccentricity in staad pro. as per Eurocode 1998:2004, while analyzing the structure for seismic loads using response spectra method.
    Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

    Calculate section properties when adding new shape to database

    Two things here:Have the ability for STAAD (in the physical modeler) to calculate the section properties when entering a new shape into an existing database. For example, I'm adding a new hat channel into the AISI cold formed Profiles database. In...
    Ryan Freund over 3 years ago in  4 Future consideration