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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AutoDrafter - Manual Section Size Mark ID

Please allow users to manually override Mark IDs that are generated by AutoDrafter.
Guest 2 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 2 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 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add to STAAD Physical Modeler Vehicle/ Moving Loading

Physical Modeler Loading should include Moving Load /Vehicle. If you are following Physical modeler workflow there is no Vehicle or Moving load options, which is only allowed thru Analytical Model and to use that feature, only way would be to drop...
Guest 27 days ago in  1 Needs review

simplification of Chinese steel design

As per Chinese code design, we suppose to create lot of design parameter to perform the design. it is taking lot of time for controlling all the design parameter. can you make it simplified like regular STAAD pro design?
Guest 27 days ago in  0 Needs review

Ai-Chat Gpt in Staad pro

Ai-Chat GPT can be used in Staad Pro for calculating Gust factors, which otherwise involve a lot of complicated formulas. Also, Reports can be presented in better ways with less time.
Guest 27 days 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 3 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add latest US Aluminum Design Code

STAAD.Pro has offered aluminum design and ASD code checking for many years based on the 1994 Aluminum Design Manual. Since that publication was issued 26 years ago, there have been five subsequent versions released in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2...
Steve Haymore over 2 years ago in  7 Future consideration

Provision of status bar to extract plate stress and visual representation at any desired direction

I am trying to model in physical modeler of staad and it gives random orientation of plates. Now if I have to read and visualize the stress in particular direction ( not only for one line), i am not able to do that. if possible, please provide a b...
Deepanshu Patel about 1 month ago in  8 Future consideration

Import support reaction at base in SFA

User use different software for modelling building depending on how much user-friendly the software is. Now reactions at base level are required to design mat or any footing for which SFA can be used. But since there is no option like in earlier o...
Chandrashekar Prabhudesai 2 months ago in  0 Needs review