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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Provide STAAD Foundation Advanced a method to manage the link to a STAAD.Pro model

When a STAAD Foundation model is created from a STAAD.Pro model, that is added to the STAAD.Pro folder. This process creates pointers in both data sets that link the two models together and allow for notification when changes takes place. However,...
Guest 8 months ago in  Future consideration

Preserve Analysis Results for Non-Structural Command File Changes

Description: Currently, STAAD deletes all analysis results whenever the command file is modified, even for changes that do not affect the structural analysis—such as adding comments, defining groups, or creating envelopes. This forces users to rer...
Brett Wyman 10 months ago in  Future consideration

Update code from API RP2A 21st Edition currently used in STAAD PRO to API RP2A 22nd Edition

API RP2A 21st edition is an old, superseded code. API RP2A 21st edition is NOT accepted by our Clients as a steel design code check for tubular members. API RP2A 22nd edition is accepted by our Clients. It would be straight forward for STAAD to up...
Guest 11 months ago in  Future consideration

Allow hyphen character for UPT file name path

Currently while importing the UPT file, we get a warning if file path of the UPT file contains hyphen (-). The warning is "File path contains invalid characters (-). Please remove such characters from the path and retry". Program should allow larg...
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 26 days ago in  Future consideration

Retrieve STAAD model after sudden power cut

During a sudden power cut, STAAD file and .sbk file got corrupted and the STAAD file content cannot be retrieved. Provide a method to retrieve the content of the STAAD file/.sbk file
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 26 days ago in  Future consideration

Enhance Header Rendering to Ensure Resolution-Independent Display of fixed labels

The header text elements “By” and “Ref” in Report, are wrapped on certain system resolution and scaling. Improve the UI implementation to ensure that header text elements: Render correctly across all supported resolutions and DPI scaling setting...
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 26 days ago in  Future consideration

Extend the UPT PRISMATIC and GENERAL with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes

Idea on behalf of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation The UPT Prismatic and General are to be extended with an extra value to define the angle between the principal and geometric axes. Currently Shape Editor program calculates the sectional proper...
Shreyanka Bhattacharjee 4 months ago in  Future consideration

Request to Add “Reset to Default” Option for Plate Stress Contour Color Settings in STAAD

Dear STAAD Development Team, I would like to suggest an enhancement in STAAD for the Plate Stress Contour color settings available under Diagrams → Plate Stress Contour. Currently, users can manually modify the color sequence/order used for stress...
Guest 3 months ago in  Future consideration

Automatic Linking of Connections in Connection Designer with Steel AutoDrafter

I would like to suggest a significant improvement to the software. Currently, marking each connection one by one in engineering drawings is time-consuming and prone to errors. It would be extremely useful to link the connections generated in Conne...
ANNY VILLEGAS over 1 year ago in  Future consideration

Save the analysis results for optimisation of STAAD model

There is need to additional features of optimization of BU members which is not addressed by The STAAD SELECT and SELECT OPTIMISE commands - There should be 3 commands - Perform only analysis Perform only design (on the basis of previously sav...
Guest 3 months ago in  Future consideration