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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    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

    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 almost 3 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 almost 3 years ago in  6 Future consideration

    Request for Plate Corner Stress OpenSTAAD Function

    In the OpenSTAAD module, the function to extract plate corner stress results is currently not available. Kindly include the appropriate OpenSTAAD function or method to retrieve plate corner stresses. Thank you.
    sithukkannan M 3 months ago in  0 Needs review

    Render Profiles from Shape Editor in STAAD.Pro

    If i create any member using "Shape Editor" using built up members (Stadd pro version 24.00.02.354), then during "3d rendering" it shows only line diagram. Although this problem is continuing from the earlier version also. Is ther any solutions of...
    Guest 8 months ago in  1 Needs review

    AutoDrafter - Save as PDF

    Please allow option to save drawings from AutoDrafter to PDF.
    Guest 9 months ago in  0 Needs review

    AutoDrafter - Allow Base Plate Plan

    There is currently no way to create a base plate plan in AutoDrafter. Please add it.
    Guest 9 months ago in  0 Needs review

    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 almost 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration