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 Needs review
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 24, 2026

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Follow Global or Local Axis Convention for All Input and Output-Whether parmater or forces reported!

All Input Parameters and Forces reported by STAAD should follow the same convention of Local member axis as lower case and Global Axis as UPPERECASE.
For example Input Parameters like LX, LY, LZ, KX, KX, KY should be Lx, Ly, Lz, Kx, Ky, Kz because these paramaters referring to member local Axis, So it is true of Member Forces and Nodal Reaction reported should follow the same convention, i.e. FX as Global Axis Force, Fx as Member local Axis,

in Many cases they may not be in the same directions.
So is true Moments MX should be the Global Moment about the Global X axis and Mx as Moment about Local Member x-Axis Force and so on.....

This will reduce error of interpretation making software reporting more intutive, compliant to widely known Engineering Conventions and more user frienfly, instead of referring to documentation every time, is that local or glabal?.