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Table providing summary of slenderness ratio's of structural steel members

Helps in assessing the actual slenderness ratio of each member.Also, such table can be used to upgrade to next size for better load carrying capacity.
Sreekanth Nuthanapati about 1 year ago in  1 Will not implement

OpenSTAAD function to extract the Beam Forces summary table for the selected beams

Hi, Typically, to get end forces to design the connection for a certain beam size, a group is created and the bounding beam forces for the group are extracted using the "Beam Results - Beam Forces - Summary table" using the "Results Setup - Range ...
Tom Pallister 10 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Add tapered rectangular tube section 

Add tapered rectangular tube section  Extend the current tapered tube definition to allow for the specification and analysis of tapered rectangular tube profiles (i..e where the length of the two side dimensions differs). Currently STAAD.Pro ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Already exists

Auto wind load generation for roof/purlins..

Frequently used for design of all steel structure with shed/roof CONCERN CODE(ALL) especially IS 875 part 3: 1-Sir, staad CE has support the auto wind load as for clad/unclad buildings, this wind load is applied on the surfaces/periphery of buildi...
Sahil Shaikh over 2 years ago in  3 Future consideration

Add Back to back properties of CF member

Kindly add the back-to-back properties of Lysaght C section (combinedly it becomes I- section) ,it is widely used in cold form structures.
Prashant Patil about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

To customize formula or coefficient for Live Load reduction

Now, Staad.Pro includes the option of Reducible Live Load by UBC/IBC. But the formula included is 16-23 instead of 16-22. Also, Staad uses equation 16-23 for load type Live and type Roof Live, instead of using section 1607.11 for Roof Live and equ...
Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

Modify design parameter "PROFILE"

Design Parameter "PROFILE" seems to check only first 3 characters. If I understand correctly, STAAD already selects the lightest section only for the same kind of section as the current one, and the limit on the height can be set by variables DMAX...
Guest 7 months ago in  3 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 7 months ago in  4 Future consideration

Exporting Physical members from Staad Pro to RCDC

Hi I have an exceedingly large model which takes hours to run on RCDC. Also, when the model is exported from STAAD to RCDC, all the beam support points are not detected properly by RCDC and I have to spend days just correcting the Beam Continuum. ...
H. E. Sriprakash Shastry 4 months ago in  1 Needs review

Add grid lines

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