Adding Material to STAAD Library

You probably know that new materials can be created in STAAD.Pro by going to Material -> Create. However, these materials will be available in that file only. If you want that material would be available all time in STAAD.Pro, then you need to manually edit the StaadPro20070.ini file.

If you are using one of the recent versions of STAAD.Pro (i.e. STAAD.Pro V8i SS4), then this file should be located here:

 Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\ApplicationData\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro V8i SS4\

 Windows 7\Vista: C:\Users\All Users\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro V8i SS4\ 

*Please note that some folders may be hidden on your system.

If You are using an older version of STAAD.Pro, then file StaadPro20070.ini can be located in C:\Windows folder.

Once You locate this file, open it with any text editor (i.e. Notepad). Then, depending on the metric system used, find line [Materials-Metric] or [Materials-English] in that file. Below one of these lines you will see some materials which are already defined (Steel, Concrete, Aluminum and Stainless Steel).

Copy lines of one material and paste it under the Stainless Steel and change numbers to 5. I.e. copy lines:

Name1=Steel
Type1=STEEL
E1=29000.0
Poisson1=0.3
Density1=0.283E-3
Alpha1=6.5e-6
Damp1=0.03

then paste it after Stainless Steel block and rename:

Name4=StainlessSteel
Type4=STEEL
E4=28000.0
Poisson4=0.3
Density4=0.289E-3
Alpha4=9.9e-6
Damp4=0.03
Fy4=0.0
Ry4 = 0.0
Rt4 = 0.0
Fu4 = 0.0

Name5=Test
Type5=TEST
E5=29000.0
Poisson5=0.3
Density5=0.283E-3
Alpha5=6.5e-6
Damp5=0.03

You can modify material properties as well. Once this is done, save the file and close it. Now these created materials (material TEST in this case) should appear in the materials list in STAAD.Pro.

Regards,

Modestas

Dear Modestas;

I followed same steps as you described, but after reopening Staad; still I can't find the added material (Im running W7-64)

Hi Shoja,

Try adding new material in both blocks: [Materials-Metric] and [Materials-English]. If still material does not appear, attach your ini file if possible.

Thanks,

Modestas

Thanks for replying;

I did same yet no result

Unluckily Im not able to upload the file (its giving me error) that is not allowed .

Unknown said:

Unluckily Im not able to upload the file (its giving me error) that is not allowed .

If you put it in a ZIP or RAR file (or even change the extension to .txt), that should work.