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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Insert node in members having built-up I-Section property.

Hi, When inserting a node into a beam having a tapered I-section property, the software automatically generates the properties for the new section and places it at the end of the property section. This poses significant challenges during the optim...
Kanagarasu Kandasamy 11 months ago in  3 Future consideration

There sholud be a Way to Create a Physical Model from a working Analytical Model!

I know there is a way to use Copy/Paste Nodes, Members, Properties, Materials, etc.Not Talking about the hard way of doing things- which involves trial and error and a lot of clean up. Since the new recommended Workflow is promoting a Physical Mod...
Guest 12 months ago in  2 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 about 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

IS800:2007 result from multiple design blocks

Currently, if there are multiple design blocks present in a STAAD model, in the post-processing utilization table, design ratio from the last design block is reported. It is very common to define multiple design blocks with different set of parame...
Surojit Ghosh over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Design Lacing and battening column to IS800:2007

Widely used in industry
Sahil Shaikh over 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

FLAT SLAB, RIBBED SLAB AND WAFFLE SLAB

May you please include the design of waffle slab, ribbed slab and flat slab in rcdc
Joseph Lucas Magare over 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Tapered Sections naming in STAAD.Pro

I think it is a good idea to allow users to name their Tapered sections as with the prismatic sections or sections created by user table. Because many times user creates many tapered sections in his model, andt when it comes to modifying one of th...
Guest over 4 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Calculation of Stability index Q as per annex E of IS456

To determine whether a column is a no sway or a sway column, stability index Q may be computed as given in annex-e of IS456. It's a very time consuming and cumbersome calculation while we are freezing the column sizes. if Q is directly calculated ...
Guest 9 days ago in  3 Future consideration

Multiple design parameters results in post processing window for Indian code IS 800-2007 is requested.

This will reduce the tedious process of turning on and off each design parameter from editor file and then running the full input file again multiple times. If this can be implemented for AISC-360 then it shall be implemented for other codes also.
Guest 3 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Add load to the node/beam/element group using OpenSTAAD

Hi, I have an OpenSTAAD program that generates groups and that applies loads to the elements/beams/nodes in those groups. However I'd like to apply the load to the group directly using openSTAAD as you can in the STAAD Command File? What I want to...
Tom Pallister 3 months ago in  1 Future consideration