https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/119255/best-way-to-model-a-wireHi, I&#39;m quite a novice user of the bentley software, I was wondering is there a particular method in one of the software packages (ideally staad - as i&#39;m most comfortable with that)) that would be best suited to modelling a wire support system whichen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/367774?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 13 May 2016 21:42:33 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:63cf2659-4770-44b3-9dd8-8b264cb407b0Sye<p>Cables can be modeled using beam elements in STAAD.Pro. Following wiki has more information on how to assign cross sectional property to the cables</p> <p><a href="http://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/w/structural_analysis_and_design__wiki/22821.how-to-define-a-cable-section">communities.bentley.com/.../22821.how-to-define-a-cable-section</a></p> <p>You should use the Advanced Nonlinear Cable Analysis in STAAD.Pro to analyze the model.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>