STAAD.Pro Ideas Portal

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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 7 months ago in  4 Planned

OpenSTAAD Function to Retrieve Errors and Warnings

Currently OpenSTAAD provides OpenSTAADUI:AnalyzeEx() which upon completion of the analysis returns an integer indicating the status analysis. However, it will be helpful if there is a function which provides more information about the Errors and W...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  3 Future consideration

OpenSTAAD function to remove the unused isotropic materials

Staad by default adds some materials to the model (please refer to the snapshot attached). Majority of these will not be used during automation (as the materials will be created separately based on the need) and hence the materials section remains...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  1 Future consideration

Show section shape from Section wizard

Hello dev team, As of now, STAAD cannot show the section shape from section wizard . This issue may make the engineer confuse about local axis even we can referent to the (v,u) axis. its will be good if STAAD can show the section shape that custom...
Support REI 7 months ago in  1 Will not implement

Generate Rotate command automatically creates new beta angles and assign for the affected rotated members

When you use the Generate Rotate command, the beta angles remains the same so you have to uptade member by member the new beta angle for the non-orthogonal elements that were affected. The idea is a custom tool that automatically creates the new b...
Arthur Magalhães 7 months ago in  1 Will not implement

OpenSTAAD Function for Creating a Section using Profile Polygon

StaadPro provides the option to create a custom open section by defining a profile polygon (refer to the snapshot attached). Sections created this can be visualized as 3D objects when rendered instead of just showing a simple line. This helps in c...
Srinivasa Rao Masanam 7 months ago in  2 Future consideration

Steel AutoDrafter Implementation Required

Dear Sir / Madam, Steel Auto Drafter is not giving beam presentation as per Releases provide in Analytical Modelling. Please check attached screenshot for your ready reference. Steel AutoDrafter drawings should be as per Release and Analytical mod...
Keyur Patel 7 months ago in  5 Future consideration

SOLIDITY RATIO IN STEEL STRUCTURE

Automation of solidity ratio of steel structure for calculating wing load shall be done. It is very time-consuming process for every structure design.
Guest 8 months ago in  7 Already exists

Combined profile of a wide flange and channel as a single object

For Inclusion of built up section in standard I section combination with Channel section on top flange, which is widely used for gantry girder.
Guest 8 months ago in  5 Already exists

Immediate Steel Take Off

Add function to produce a steel take off immediately without having to run the full analysis.
Randy Killian 8 months ago in  5 Planned