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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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

Auto wind load generation for roof/purlins..

Frequently used for design of all steel structure with shed/roof CONCERN CODE(ALL) especially IS 875 part 3: 1-Sir, staad CE has support the auto wind load as for clad/unclad buildings, this wind load is applied on the surfaces/periphery of buildi...
Sahil Shaikh almost 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Calculate section properties when adding new shape to database

Two things here:Have the ability for STAAD (in the physical modeler) to calculate the section properties when entering a new shape into an existing database. For example, I'm adding a new hat channel into the AISI cold formed Profiles database. In...
Ryan Freund almost 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

update to IBC 2021

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Bradley Oliver 4 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Add grid lines

Grid lines are already included when using Auto Drafter. That idea could be very useful in GUI.
Guest almost 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Moving Load Moving in Global Vertical Direction

The ability to apply horizontal moving loads that move in the vertical direction (up a column) (e.g. elevator loads on a column).
Jeremy Jacobs over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Time History in multiple load case for blast loads

For Blast loads in some cases we have to apply blast load in all the direction i.e x and z in different load cases. presently the time history load is possible only in one load case. Time history should be allowed to be added in mutiple load cases
Ashok K over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

Update ASCE7 to the latest version 7-22

Currently, ASCE7-22 is not available in STAAD. Pro. Wind and Seismic load generation with this code is required for our project execution.
yuki oyama about 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Built-up tapered section name

All tapered section name shows as a tapered . its very useful if staad pro show the tapered section show the section in the display- Tapered I- 300x6+200x8+150x8 if its uniform web depth Tapered I- (300-750)x6+200x8+150x8 if its tapered web depth ...
Guest 9 months ago in  1 Future consideration