Create the ability to use a .dwg or .dxf file as a background when using Staad Physical Modeler. Have clickable nodes in background. Have the ability to place that background at different elevations.

currently, only 2 decimal numbers are displayed for plate thickness. when there are different plate thickness are input, and the thickness differences is on the 3rd decimal number, it will be hard to figure out which one is which, since they are d...

We are really appreciate that rebar 6 and 9 mm were added to RCDC recently(update2023). But we would like to request another function that the fy can be assigned to specific rebar number and also differ to each rebar. For example, If we have RB 9m...

Pipelink is quite rudimentary. It does not provide the ability to assign guide supports to different nodes. For example, horizontal loads need to be applied to Vertical Members, while vertical loads need to be applied to Horizontal Members. The sa...

Please provide report data in txt format for export in versions after 2023, as we need to maintain consistency with previous versions

Currently in Column Design, RCDC has a limit on the maximum value of the effective length factor and users cannot modify this limit value 5. I want RCDC to lift the restriction on this factor. In my case as per attached staad, Column effective len...

There will be many occasions where a user wants to redefine the incidence of one or more members or plates. It would be helpful if there is an OpenSTAAD function to carry out this task as this saves a lot of effort and time. I understand that ther...

Provide a method for defining surfaces which curve out of plane so that they can be used to create curved walls

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...

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.