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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 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 over 2 years ago in  1 Already exists

update to IBC 2021

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Bradley Oliver about 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

Exact and accurate mesh size in FEM for conservative results

Mesh size in FEM in staad is yet controversial topics, as different trials for different mesh size gives very diverse and biased result, Hence perfect mesh size for more accurate plate result needs to incorporate.
Sahil Shaikh about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Renumber Tool for Physical Members (Analytical Modeler)

The AutoForm tool helps speed up generation of PMembers within an analytical modeler. Would be nice to have the ability to number physical members similar to how nodes and analytical elements like beam, plate, and solid elements are renumbered.
Guest about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Add an option for optimize to specify equal leg angles.

It would be nice to tell the optimizer to optimize to angles where the angle legs are equal. By default I prefer to specify equal legs, as it eliminates confuse and chances of error when the legs are the same size. So even if the optimizer suggest...
Dallin STRONG about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Is there any possibility to update IS 802 latest code in stadd pro connect in near future?

Is there any possibility to update IS 802 latest code in stadd pro connect in near future? Till now IS 802 1995 is provided instead of IS 802 2016
Pandiaraja Veluchamy about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

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 over 2 years ago in  3 Already exists

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve the Id (Not GUID) of a Parametric Surface

As most of the functions exposed in OpenSTAAD uses the surfaceId to target a specific parametric surface, a function to retrieve the Id of the parametric surface by specifying it's name will be essential. I tried using the existing function GetPar...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve all Existing Parameteric Surfaces' Names

Usually we start creating the parametric surface mesh by assigning a name. However, there will be situations where we need to clear all the existing mesh definitions and then start afresh. It will be much helpful if there is a function in OpenSTAA...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam about 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Provision to interchange the local axis of elements in STAAD

Please find the combination of three models by different engineer. Under this when finally local stresses are checked, the contours are not smooth. if by any chance local axis of elements can be change, this will same a valuable time of re modelli...
Ankur Jain over 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration