• Insider Skills: STAAD this Friday July 19th

    Join us for our Free seminar this Friday July 19th. Click Here for login information and a full description of Insider Skills. This weeks Topics: Wind Load Generation Floor Loading Options Seismic Load Generation Custom Section User…
  • ISM Material Mapping

    Hello! I am new to ISM, and am experimenting with it as a central repository for Prostructures design and STAAD Engineering data. It seems to work at first attempt, but I am having an issue with materials. It seems that the mapping of materials from…
  • Geometry import issue from ProStructures to STAAD.Pro using ISM

    Issue: The geometry of some members is not getting imported properly from ProStructures into STAAD.Pro using ISM. Here is the screenshot of the structure which should be imported: This is how it is imported into STAAD.Pro: Notice that most…
  • plate elements in staad & release specification

    yes i know the said thing but in actual practice we have different conditions for plate such as simply supported, fixed etc. then in space frame with the model say 3*3 bay both sides and height of building say 20 meter then in that case if i am…
  • composite beams & slabs

    Hello everybody, I am having some doubt about the slab orientation in composite slab design tab. the question is that if i want to design the solid slab connected with steel beam then what is to be done should i take the span as spanning between the…
  • Re: How to use STAAD more efficiently

    Kris, Thanks for your reply. I anticipate your responses to Sasa3k's other questions. As Sasa3k mentioned above, most of your replies are workarounds, not native functionality. It would behove you to make them native to the programe rather than…
  • Single Line Format <-> List format

    I mistakenly converted my input file to single line format. Is there any way to get it back to list format without a lot of keyboard time?
  • Moving Load - STAAD PRO

    I need help in STAAD PRO. I am trying to get a moving load to go from one node to another. For example, if I have nodes N1, N2 and N3, and member M1 runs from N1 to N2, while member M2 runs from N2 to N3. How do I get a moving load to move from member…