STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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Waffle /Grid slab and flat slab

Heavy loaded structures...
Sahil Shaikh over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Add fire calculation in staad.pro

according to GB 51249-2017, steel structure needs to do the fire calculation and corresponding design. There are more and more security reviews about fire calculation, therefore it's necessary to add these content in staad.pro.
Guest 11 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Add the ability to add wind loads to plate elements

It would be nice to be able to apply wind loads on plate elements. Especially given that there is a wind load definition specifically for tanks, but no way to model that tank other than plate elements. The alternatives are a cumbersome to implemen...
Dallin STRONG over 3 years ago in  2 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

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 12 months ago in  4 Future consideration

Staad Pro does not include Seismic load NBCC 2015

Dear All, I highly recommend to include calculation of seismic load using NBCC 2015. I see it as a big gap in Staad Pro not to include Seismic loading using NBCC 2015 Thanks a lot
Guest over 4 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Provide wind generation on Fireproof Members

STAAD does not consider the additional width of the fireproofed members; producing underestimated wind generated loads for open structures like piperacks. Please include this feature as this would make several of my colleagues happy.
Guest over 5 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

Add Feature to Customize & Save Preferred Workspace Settings/ GUI View Management

Engineering work flow requires quick visual assessments of results and modification of structural models until a satisfactory solution is achieved. Hence, as part of the time saving ideas for reviewing structural models, May I suggest that the Wor...
Ola Joda over 1 year ago in  4 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 2 years ago in  4 Future consideration