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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automatic coupling plate element boundary

Need a function similar to Midas automatic coupling plate element boundary
Guest 5 months ago in  1 Already exists

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 1 year ago in  2 Already exists

OpenSTAAD function to extract plate corner stresses.

Anyone who perform post-processing/detailed analysis on plated structures will benefit from this. The function could take a plate ID and loadcase as input, and give plate corner stresses for all corners as output.
Nikolai Aasprong over 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Modeling of trapezoidal pattern plates (for raft foundation) in staad pro

Till now, staad pro has an option to assign plates of various thickness, but it should also have an option to model such plates in TRAPEZOIDAL PATTERN as shown in below images,which is frequently used to model raft foundation, also placement and b...
Sahil Shaikh about 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Add feature of modelling of chequered plates and grating in staad pro CE

In a multistorey steel structure, chequered plates and grating are widely used (as like slab used in RCDC) building, there is an option of modelling RCC slab in staad pro,like parametric modelling option,plate element option etc, but there isn't a...
Sahil Shaikh about 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Hide Selected Object

it is a very useful option when you are trying to hide some selected entity for better view. HIDE SELECTED OBJECT rather than using invert Selection and other ways.
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Add Node Relative

I appreciate if future enhancement can take an option where you can add node relation to EXISTING in X, Y & Z direction. This option is available in some other software like ETABS where you just input X,Y &Z coordinate and click existing n...
Guest about 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

OpenSTAAD Function to Redefine Member/Plate Incidence

There will be many occasions where a user wants to redefine the incidence of one or more members or plates. It would be helpful if there is an OpenSTAAD function to carry out this task as this saves a lot of effort and time. I understand that ther...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam about 1 year ago in  3 Already exists

Tables with inbuild worksheet like sorting facilities

When sorting information in a worksheet, you can rearrange the data to find values quickly. You can sort a range or table of data on one or more columns of data. you can sort load cases in display tables for both input and output data directly in ...
Guest 9 months ago in  1 Already exists

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 ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Already exists