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...

It would be much helpful if additional tools to select entities like Nodes, Beams etc., in the polar coordinate system i.e., specifying the start and end radius (or diameter) and start and end angles. This helps a lot if we need to select the enti...

It would be useful to be able to a universal setting for different colors for different range of utilization ratios in the model to visually inspect. Right now they are only File Specific which means I will have to manually change the utilisation ...

The possibility of adding an 'AI Assistant' type tool, for example: "Alexa" or "Siri", which with natural language is able to interpret what the user asks for and execute the orders requested.

Looking for a OpenSTAAD Function to extract Area of reinforcement from STAAD Output. I have explored the OpenSTAAD help and I couldn't able to find. If you have any solutions, please suggest.

It would be nice to be able to apply wind loads on plate elements. Especially given that there is a wind load definition specifically for tanks, but no way to model that tank other than plate elements. The alternatives are a cumbersome to implemen...

There is currently no efficient way to consider the live load reduction factor in STAAD.Pro. It would be fantastic to add a parameter to the design section (e.g., under CSA S16-19 or AISC 360-16) to consider a live load reduction on an element by ...

This will reduce the tedious process of turning on and off each design parameter from editor file and then running the full input file again multiple times. If this can be implemented for AISC-360 then it shall be implemented for other codes also.

STAAD cannot report Beam Results in the Global Coordinate Systems in the UI Results Table. However, it is capable of printing Member Forces using the Global Coordinate System to the Analysis Report. This hinders downstream processes that require t...

Dear All, I highly recommend to include calculation of seismic load using NBCC 2015. I see it as a big gap in Staad Pro not to include Seismic loading using NBCC 2015 Thanks a lot