STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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Renumber Tool for Physical Members (Analytical Modeler)

The AutoForm tool helps speed up generation of PMembers within an analytical modeler. Would be nice to have the ability to number physical members similar to how nodes and analytical elements like beam, plate, and solid elements are renumbered.
Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add an option for optimize to specify equal leg angles.

It would be nice to tell the optimizer to optimize to angles where the angle legs are equal. By default I prefer to specify equal legs, as it eliminates confuse and chances of error when the legs are the same size. So even if the optimizer suggest...
Dallin STRONG 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Is there any possibility to update IS 802 latest code in stadd pro connect in near future?

Is there any possibility to update IS 802 latest code in stadd pro connect in near future? Till now IS 802 1995 is provided instead of IS 802 2016
Pandiaraja Veluchamy 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve the Id (Not GUID) of a Parametric Surface

As most of the functions exposed in OpenSTAAD uses the surfaceId to target a specific parametric surface, a function to retrieve the Id of the parametric surface by specifying it's name will be essential. I tried using the existing function GetPar...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve all Existing Parameteric Surfaces' Names

Usually we start creating the parametric surface mesh by assigning a name. However, there will be situations where we need to clear all the existing mesh definitions and then start afresh. It will be much helpful if there is a function in OpenSTAA...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Beam utilization listing with drop down box

The "actual ratio" button in postprocessing mode is not working for a lot of users in Subsea7. This button is supposed to re-arrange beam utilizations from default beam number order, to utilization ascending order, and is very helpful. The problem...
Guest 6 months ago in  2 Needs review

Wind Loads on Steel Structures

I think the wind load application should be rewritten to make it simpler and more user friendly. STAAD is at least three times as long as SAP2000 when inputting wind loads.
Guest almost 2 years ago in  12 Needs review

ASEC7 vertical structural irregularities check

The STAAD.Pro now can not check the the vertical structural irregularities 5a/5b in the ASCE 7 table 12.3-2 by ant command stream, but as the code demand, the designer need check this irregularities, it is very difficult and cost time for designer...
Guest 8 months ago in  1 Needs review

OpenSTAAD Function to get CoG of the Model

It would be good to get a function in OpenSTAAD function to get the CoG of the Model.
Guest 8 months ago in  2 Needs review

Ability to Revert to Old Report Format within Staad

The new report formatting while nice in appearance is cumbersome, not quick to use and has issues with savings....can't there be an ability for staad users to "revert" back to the old school report formatting?
Guest 4 months ago in  1 Needs review