This is the second of two articles that explain some significant changes that have taken place in the SELECTseries  5 release of STAAD.Pro V8i.

One of the strengths of STAAD.Pro has been its wealth of design codes from across the globe.  To help reduce costs to clients, these have been licenced in packages called design code packs, typically around a regional zone, so that only the design codes for a region can be added…

This is the first of two articles that explain some significant changes that have taken place in the SELECTseries 5 release of STAAD.Pro.

In previous versions of STAAD.Pro V8i, in order to use the program, a designer would be forced to have a live network connection so that they could access their SELECT server and the server had to have licenses available to check out. When STAAD.Pro is started, this network connection…