STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition Licenses

The licenses that can be used in a STAAD.Pro session can deliver a range of capabilities. A broad summary of these capabilities is described below.

STAAD.Pro

This is the basic primary license required to run any version of STAAD.Pro. Without use of this license no aspect of STAAD.Pro is available for use. When this license is used the following are some of the key aspects of the program that become available

• Analytical and physical modelling tools and visualisations as well as post processing the analysis results.
• An Editor designed to work with the STD data file.
• The standard analysis solver is used in all the forms of elastic static and dynamic analysis
• Basic steel, concrete, aluminium and timber design as part of the analysis
• Basic interactive concrete design
• Section Wizard tool for creating non-standard shapes
• A basic buckling analysis solution
• A basic cable analysis method
• Interop with an ISM repository
• Create data for applications such as STAAD Foundation Advanced, AutoPIPE and RAM Concept.
• Access to STAAD model and results data with OpenSTAAD
• Earthquake checks to Eurocode 8

STAAD.Pro Advanced

This provides extended capabilities to STAAD.Pro by adding the following additional capabilities to the program:-

• Faster Advanced Solver
• Geometric Non-Linear Analysis
• Floor Spectrum analysis
• Steady State analysis
• Advanced Cable formulation and Buckling eigen extraction
• Advanced Concrete Design with RCDC

Note that this license cannot be used in isolation. It requires a parallel use of the basic STAAD.Pro license.

Structural SELECT Entitlements

This is an extra license which will extend the capabilities of a STAAD.Pro session with additional capabilities. The following capabilities are included with any STAAD.Pro license that is maintained on a current subscription program:-

• Building Planner
• Steel AutoDrafter

Note that this license cannot be used in isolation. It requires a parallel use of the basic STAAD.Pro license.