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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Steel structure optimization for tapered sections and built-up section

Optimization of steel structure in staad pro as per (Indian code like IS-800 _2007, IS-801 etc. has many limitations till now. It has to be resolved earlier, Some of limitations are ~ optimization for tapered sections not supported by staad ~ opti...
Sahil Shaikh 10 months ago in  1 Needs review

Implementation of IS 16700: 2023 in staad pro

Now a days, construction of high rise building are very common in India, and it is very necessary to implement code for the same like IS 16700 with new amendments in 2023, kindly implement the same in staad as early stage, with all clauses like co...
Sahil Shaikh 10 months ago in  1 Needs review

Tapered bracket cantilever design

In design of buildings sometimes we need to takeup tapered bracket or counterbalance supported tapered cantilever cross section At the moment we can not design tapering cross section in staad pro connection edition
Guest almost 2 years ago in  1 Needs review

Automatic combinations should only include notional loads in the direction of the main lateral load

Hello, There’s no point in applying the notional load against other lateral loads. In STAAD, it’s possible that the Load Combination where automatically generated so the notional loads are generated for all directions even if they countermeasure t...
Jacques ARNOLD 12 months ago in  2 Needs review

Use Center of the Structure as rotation Center

The Orientation Settings window provides the option "Use the center of the structure as the rotation center". However, when i perform the "Display Whole Structure" function, the rotation center is reset to 0,0,0. This happens when the Orientation ...
Guest 6 months ago in  0 Needs review

ANGLE STAR AISC LRFD CODE CHECK

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Guest 7 months ago in  3 Needs review

Reuse the water tank module to form a retaining wall module in SPPM

Are there any plans to use the Water Tank module in Structure Wizard in the Physical Modeler to create a retaining wall module? It seems like this could be developed easily from the water tank module.
Richard Tully almost 2 years ago in  1 Needs review

Improve beam/node selection for reporting loads

Add some kind of functionality to categorize "connection types" to simplify reporting of loads. While there is functionality to group members and to group nodes, there is no way to overlap them. When I want the connection loads for certain members...
Michael Wood 8 months ago in  6 Needs review

Pipelink Improvement

The pipelink transfer of loads from AutoPIPE to STAAD is currently very limited for guide-type supports and other multi-direction supports. A guide support will have vertical loads as well as lateral loads. Depending on the direction of the latera...
Michael Wood over 1 year ago in  5 Needs review

Multiple mass definition for spectra load cases.

Hello, I found a problem when I have to analyze a structure in two different situation. One with equipment in operation and another one with equipment empty. For eatrhquake I used "Response spectra". It is knows that response spectra use only the ...
Dragos Andrei 8 months ago in  1 Needs review