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 about 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    State the code basis for utilization ratio tables in reports

    In STAAD 2023, if a report is created and the Utilization Ratio table is included, a critical Clause is listed for each member. However, there is no indication in/above the table of which code, or code version, that the Clause pertains to. Please ...
    Steve Haymore over 1 year ago in  2 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 about 3 years ago in  6 Future consideration

    Slab deflection plots

    Currently the only way to check the deflection of a slab is to review the deflected shape of the shells' mesh, or in the tabulated results. It would be very useful if the contour plots for shells included the option to contour deflections as well ...
    Guest about 2 years ago in  2 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 about 3 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    Using arbitrary Young's modulus (E) in AIJ2005 code calculations

    In the current AIJ2005 code allowable stress calculation of STAAD.Pro, the Young's modulus is fixed at 205000 (N/mm2). On the other hand, in the AIJ2002 code, by using the YNG=1 parameter, the Young's modulus used in the frame analysis can be use...
    佐野 秀昭 Hideaki Sano over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

    Add grid lines

    Grid lines are already included when using Auto Drafter. That idea could be very useful in GUI.
    Saul Cuen almost 3 years 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 almost 3 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 over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

    Eurocode Wind Load Automatic Generation

    Please add the ability to automatically generate wind loading to eurocodes.
    Guest over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration