In general, Most of PEB companies design the web as Slender members if the project location is in low seismic region. In such cases when we give the design report to consultant for approval, we get comment that web area is considered in calculatin...

Currently, using the Design.AssignDesignCommand function to add a design command like "CODE CHECK" is ideal only for one execution using VBA. If you execute the code multiple times, the "CODE CHECK' command is added to the command equal to the num...

STAAD Pro is used throughout Europe and provides in-depth code checks for most structural analysis. Wouldn't it be a good idea to include the wind parameters from EC3 1-4 in the Wind Definitions rather than only include american, indian, chinese a...

In STAAD.Pro Advanced 2024, please add tool to adjust the scale (size) of the "Beam Orientation" arrows. it is impossible to distinguish from one member to another with the arrows so large.... this was an isolated view of a portion of a much large...

Sometimes we have to share our models to clients/vendors, and we wish to set a layer of protection on the staad file, such as a password that the user have to enter everytime they try to launch the file. I think it helps to protect corporate and p...

Add function to produce a steel take off immediately without having to run the full analysis.

From 22years using Staad Pro, I propose to update the way to applied a load on beams as It's possible for nodes. In the case of nodes, We can do like this in one line: Joint Load 10 FX 10 FY -22 FZ 33 I propose You to update the syntax of applying...

Please add an option to generate an image report for every load case. The image report are showing how the forces are affecting the structure (see attached screenshots). Currently it is only possible to manually create a screenshot for each load c...

AutoDrafter currently shows a rigid member symbol when a member has a free end with no other members connecting to that location. It would be great to remove these redundant symbols

Member/Connection Type symbols sometimes crowd a drawing too much, or is too long (e.g., when dealing with Tee members taken by halfing a wide-flange section). It would be nice for an option within the Drawing Style Manager to activate/deactivate ...