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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 about 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

Add Back to back properties of CF member

Kindly add the back-to-back properties of Lysaght C section (combinedly it becomes I- section) ,it is widely used in cold form structures.
Prashant Patil over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Add live load reduction factor as design parameter

There is currently no efficient way to consider the live load reduction factor in STAAD.Pro. It would be fantastic to add a parameter to the design section (e.g., under CSA S16-19 or AISC 360-16) to consider a live load reduction on an element by ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

Do not Auto split the design parameter & loadings.

When dealing with a substantial number of members within a STAAD model, the design parameters tend to split automatically. Consequently, this automatic splitting poses challenges when attempting to review the design parameters. The same situation ...
Kanagarasu Kandasamy over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Stress Ratio Results for Multiple Load Cases

Show code check results for more than just the worst case. Should be able to see what the next worst, and next worse after that and so on. It's been over 10 years since I used it but I believe SACS does this. If so, could take a look at it.
Randy Killian over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members

OpenSTAAD function to extract the capacity of members, so that it will be used for additional checks as per Code
B Senthilkumar over 1 year ago in  7 Future consideration

Getting Ratio of the design calculation by OpenStaad API

There is no command to get the design calculation results in OpenStaad and I would like you to provide it.
Hidetaka Kaida almost 2 years ago in  5 Future consideration

Universal Setting for Design Results Colour

It would be useful to be able to a universal setting for different colors for different range of utilization ratios in the model to visually inspect. Right now they are only File Specific which means I will have to manually change the utilisation ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

MEMBER FORCES - GLOBAL Coordinate System

STAAD cannot report Beam Results in the Global Coordinate Systems in the UI Results Table. However, it is capable of printing Member Forces using the Global Coordinate System to the Analysis Report. This hinders downstream processes that require t...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration

Extend the Take off Command to Plate elements

It'd be nice to be able to use the take-off command on plate elements. Similarly to beams where the take off give the section, length, and weight. Having the take off give thickness, area, and weight would be really helpful.
Dallin STRONG over 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration