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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Status Future consideration
Created by Shreyanka Bhattacharjee
Created on Jun 24, 2026

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Deflection Check

In STAAD.Pro V22 and older version, when performing serviceability design on a set of members that have been defined as continuous using DJ1 and DJ2, the output for each segment has been the same, i.e. determined by the maximum deflection from all segments between DJ1 and DJ2.

From STAAD.Pro 2023, there has been a change such that the result of each segment is now only for the displacement in that segment.

User has requested an option (it could be a steel design parameter) to choose between these two methodology (old and new) of deflection check