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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Wind Loading on Tapered Sections

Dear Colleagues, // STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition - Version 22.12.00.142 // there was a situation where we had to find out the lateral forces due to wind on a light pole (tapered profile) and provide suitable support for the same. Wind was applied usi...
Dani Paul about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Make Material Definition properties apply for steel design

Currently, according to Bentley Support, the Material Definition properties are only used in the Connection Design module and are not used for steel design & code checking. The SGR, FYLD, FU parameters must be used instead to define the materi...
Michael Wood about 1 year ago in  5 Future consideration

Design wide flange with cover plates to EN1993-1

Currently design of I plate with cover plates are not yet implemented in Euro code for STAAD. This idea is to add support for this capability.
vibhor choudhary over 1 year ago in  1 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 over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

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 over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration

Add an Autosave Feature

Please consider adding an autosave feature. A real autosave not a prompt that appears every so often minutes asking you to save. One that will autosave without input. Autosave is pretty much a standard now across a variety of softwares, so constan...
Dallin STRONG over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

section detail backup

every time when we update software, it should be notified to take necessary backup of added section for cold form, it is really painful doing same work in 1-2 month while software is being updated. it will save designerr time
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 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 over 1 year ago in  6 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 1 year ago in  4 Future consideration

Latest Australian steel design code

Need latest Australian code- AS 4100- 2020 and As 3600-2018 to be implemented in staad urgently for our project execution.
Guest over 1 year ago in  3 Future consideration