It is general practice if we assigned a new property for the members, the old property will be automatically replaced or deleted by the new one. No need to change or edit the property in input file for members one by one. But for some large file I...

Now a days, construction of high rise building are very common in India, and it is very necessary to implement code for the same like IS 16700 with new amendments in 2023, kindly implement the same in staad as early stage, with all clauses like co...

There exists a function to create a new design brief OSDesignUI::CreateDesingBrief(). However, there is no function to remove/delete existing design brief(s). Please review and consider adding this function.

There is no method, report, or output command available to display the "k" coefficient used by the program for vertical distribution of seismic base shear per ASCE 7-16, Eq 12.8-2. Since this value can vary with the period it needs to be reported ...

In a multistorey steel structure, chequered plates and grating are widely used (as like slab used in RCDC) building, there is an option of modelling RCC slab in staad pro,like parametric modelling option,plate element option etc, but there isn't a...

I appreciate if future enhancement can take an option where you can add node relation to EXISTING in X, Y & Z direction. This option is available in some other software like ETABS where you just input X,Y &Z coordinate and click existing n...

North America users, Canadian Users.

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...

Are there any plans to use the Water Tank module in Structure Wizard in the Physical Modeler to create a retaining wall module? It seems like this could be developed easily from the water tank module.

Beam FB111 is secondary beam and beam FB347 to FB350 is primary beam. We want beam numbering reverse. Primary beam should have one number and secondary beam should split into four different numbers. We don't want group name in output file.