STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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    Add a Plate Force Envelope to "Results along a Line Command".

    When designing shear wall pier segments around an opening, it would be helpful to have an envelope of in-plane plate forces in addition to results for each combination. Selecting "envelope" from the load combinations does not change the values in ...
    Steven Vertner 3 months ago in  1 Needs review

    Buckling Restrained Braced Frames

    How can buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs) be modeled in STAAD.Pro for retrofit analysis? Which properties or parameters need to be modified in the model to accurately represent the behavior of BRBs?
    Guest 3 months ago in  1 Will not implement

    Staad.Pro 2025 Serviceability Check include section from Mexican Tables

    Serviceability check doesn't work when using sections from Mexican Tables or prismatic sections producing the error: "To use this tool the model should have section profiles and materials assigned to all members." When I change all my sections to ...
    Saul Cuen 7 months ago in  1 Already exists

    Make Staad Multi Processor (Multi-Threaded)

    This would cut down the analysis time required by STAAD significantly. If it is too much work to change the solver code to benefit from multi-threads, can at least each basic load or each load combination be run at a different thread? There's no r...
    Rafael Salgado over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    Update EN 1993-1-1 design code

    Currently, EN 1993-1-1 provide in STAAD.Pro is 2005 edition. My request is to update the code to the latest edition, 2023.
    Guest 10 months ago in  2 Future consideration

    Modelling and Design of tapered channel

    I Need to design lot of platforms with cantilever beams. Tapered channel is easy to fabricate in plate and most economical section for cantilever conditions. Hence I request you to include this options in the staad. Moreover, tapered I is already ...
    Guest 10 months ago in  3 Needs review

    Add ability to show "Color by Section" under Properties Tab

    Under Properties in Analytical Modeling, one can currently only highlight assigned geometry for a single section at a time. A button could be added to the table that allows you to show all section properties in the current view by color, and then ...
    Marcos Luna over 2 years ago in  5 Already exists

    Request to make "Result Utilization Ratio" editable

    Could you please make the 'result utilization ratio' field directly editable? Currently, it's set to a default of 1, but we need to set values like 0.9 or 0.95. While it's possible to adjust this using a detailed diagram, the values changes with e...
    Kanagarasu Kandasamy 7 months ago in  4 Already exists

    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 almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    Copy / Move Radial Nodes

    Problem: For circular structures, nodes are radially located about a common center. Moving or copying nodes becomes a problem in that X and Z coordinates have to be computed. Or they have to be located / generated by a circular repeat command. Sug...
    Guest 4 months ago in  4 Needs review