STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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STAAD.Pro AISC/CSA Code Checks - Eccentric Axial Specification

There is currently no way, other than directly adding rigid body members with the necessary releases, to simulate an an axial angle or tee member (brace) under eccentric axial load. This causes a high amount of manual calculations to determine the...
Guest 4 months ago in  4 Needs review

Add ability to show "Colour by Utilization Ratio" for 3D view in post processing workflow

It would be good to have a 3D view in post processing with colours of the beam as defined with a UR value. It is possible to have this with beam view now, but would be good if we have it for 3D view like SACS have. (as shown below for example).
Guest 11 months ago in  2 Needs review

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 almost 2 years ago in  7 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 almost 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Moving Loads Acting in Horizontal Directions

Provide the ability to have horizontal moving loads in addition to the vertical loads. For example, ASCE 7 requires cranes to be designed for vertical loads and horizontal loads. It would be great if STAAD had the ability to have both the vertical...
Jeremy Jacobs over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Steel AutoDrafter: Customized Offset Distance

Steel Auto-Drafter draws member releases with a 20mm offset by default. The user would like to set this offset distance to an arbitrary distance. Additionally, the user would like to set separate distances for each of the following members: ...
Abhisek Mandal over 2 years ago in  6 Future consideration

AutoDrafter - Show Tee Sections (From Halved Wide Flanges) as the WT callout

Sometimes these drawings are sent to other colleagues that do 3D modeling, and sometimes do not know that W200x27 TEE === WT100x13. It would be an improvement for the Schedule of Sections and MTOs show the correct WT callout, when a STAAD users sp...
Guest 4 months ago in  1 Future consideration

IS 18168 : 2023 Earthquake Resistant Design and Detailing of Steel Buildings

It is new code introduced by IS Commitee for Steel Design. Those engineers working on STEEL Design across any industry will have to use all codal provisions suggested by IS8168. Accordingly STAAD Pro has to be upgraded.
Guest over 1 year ago in  3 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 over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

In wind load generator, please incorporate wind load in other directions such as X & Z. Also, wind load on roof truss & corners needs to be incorporated.

There is no way to add wind load in other direction in case of unclad building. For example : - staad taking load case only in one direction i.e. +X, whenever I try to add another case in z direction, previous case gets deleted automatically. So, ...
Shubhankar Chatterjee about 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration