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  • "DEFINE" COMMANDS FOR LOAD GENERATION SHOULD BE PROVIDED BEFORE SPECIFYING PRIMARY LOAD CASES.

    Tell me how can I get rif of this error please. DEFINE UBC ACCIDENTAL LOAD ZONE 0.4 I 1 RWX 3.5 RWZ 3.5 STYP 4 CT 0.0488 NA 1.2 NV 1.6 SELFWEIGHT 1.1 UNIT METER KN DEFINE WIND LOAD TYPE 1 WIND_PEDESTRIANBRIDGE <! STAAD PRO GENERATED DATA DO NOT MODIFY…
  • WARNING: DESIGN OF SECTION FOR MEMBER # FOR PLATE SECTION

    Hello, I came across with an issue, could you please help me. I need to use plate member for stair stringer, Staad is showing errors for the analysis of the member. WARNING: DESIGN OF SECTION FOR MEMBER # Please help me how to rectify the…
  • DESIGN NOT PERFORMED WITH PRISMATIC PROPERTIES, USER-TABLE MAY BE USED TO DESIGN PRISMATIC SECTIONS

    Hi, I have created a section with section wizard by using plate elements in section builder as attached. i have exported to staad.pro with Prismatic option. Its not getting design with the Euro code and it showing the warning message as * DESIGN NOT…
  • Links for Technical Videos available in Bentley Structural YouTube Channel

    Applies To Product(s): STAAD.Pro Version(s): CONNECT Edition Environment: ALL Area: Webinars, Events and Videos Subarea: Original Author: Abhisek Mandal, Bentley Technical…
  • Floor Load Distribution

    Is there a way of telling the floor load distribution to ignore certain beams? I have a floor with plan bracing. I don't want the bracing to attract any load. I can specify the bracing members to not attract load? Cheers, ASN STAAD Pro Connect…
  • How to remove all materials from model

    Hello, I have recently imported a SACS file into STAAD. The materials have been brought in but there a literally hundreds of different materials. How do I remove all materials and start afresh? Software: STAAD Pro Connect Edition V22 Update 7…
  • FLOOR LOAD NOT GENERATING CORRECTLY WITH GROUPING IN CONNECT EDITION, WHERE AS OLDER VERSION OF STAAD PRO V8I SS6 IS TAKING CORRECTLY

    Whenever using Grouping for end wall columns for wind loads and applying one-way distribution the loads are taken incorrectly, I have attached the staad model showing the problem with connect edition, also when the same model is opened through an older…
  • Could someone help me, I am something new in staad and I don't know why when generating the program I get quite a few warnings and notes, I am attaching my program, thanks

    Portico1SBV.STD
  • SIG Workshop - RAM: Leveraging Capabilities to Empower Your Workflows

    Title: SIG Workshop - RAM: Leveraging Capabilities to Empower Your Workflows Host/Presenter: Ann Marie Garko-Hill, Senior Manager – Application Engineering, Bentley Systems, Inc. Date/Title: 25 February 2021 at 01:00 P.M. EST Register Now! This…
  • RCDC Imposed load

    I'm Designing a Two-way solid slab (Slab on beams) from Staad pro to RCDC. What is the Imposed Load of RCDC? Does it mean the self-weight of a slab or Floor Finishing load?
  • Design of Solid slab (Conventional slabs)

    Hello Everyone For a while, I was using an Advanced Concrete Design (RCDC) for the design of a solid slab. Today I tried to learn the RAM concept for the slab designs but I saw a design of strips that had never seen before (When I was using RCDC and…
  • Dummy beam

    Hello Everyone. I create a dummy beam with density=0 and E=0 (Figure.1) then I assign the beam (Figure.2) then Staad Error occurs( ***ERROR*** MATERIAL NAME MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY BLANK SPACE )(Figure.3), What is the solution?
  • How to create a cantilever slab by using the Physical modeler?

    How to create a cantilever slab without beams in the Physical modeler in STAAD connect edition?
  • SIG Workshop: Generating Load Combinations in STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition

    SIG Workshop: Generating Load Combinations in STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition Date/Time: Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 1:00 PM EDT Presenter: Sabrina Tedeschi,Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems, Inc. Register Now! This STAAD Special Interest…
  • Can I design a Continuous two slabs by using RCDC STAAD?

    Hello Sir RCDC is designed and Detailed all the slab one by one but I want to detail all Top and Bottom Reinforcement of the two-way slab once, what should I do.
  • STAAD PRO CONNECT - POSTPROCESSING

    Hi, The following image corresponds to the moment diagram (local Mx) of a concrete plate, supported on elastic supports and with a nodal load in the center. As you can see, I can only visualize half of the diagram. This happens to me for all diagram…
  • STAAD PRO - ELASTIC FOOTING PROBLEM

    Hello, When running the analysis for a concrete plate supported on elastic supports and a nodal load in the center of it, the following "error" appears: Does anybody know what is wrong? Thank you in advance, Ignacio
  • Update for May's STAAD SIG on Modeling Finite Elements; Recording Now Available!

    Hello STAAD users... For the STAAD SIG, which occurred on May 21, Sabrina Tedeschi presented on Modeling Finite Elements and discussed tools that can be used to generate a finite element mesh in the STAAD.Pro Analytical Modeler and the STAAD.Pro Physical…
  • Instability warning after applying Floor Diaphragm

    after applying floor diaphragm I am getting instability warning at mater joints please check my model and tell how to remove this warning 2061.major1 Wind.STD
  • Floor Diaphgram and Moment Release

    0245.struc.STD 1) After applying floor diaphgram i am getting following warning *WARNING- ZERO STIFFNESS IN DIRECTION 2 AT JOINT 32 EQN.NO. 188 ***WARNING - INSTABILITY AT JOINT 980 DIRECTION = MY 2) Have i applied the moment release correctly…
  • COLUMN DESIGN ISSUE

    Dear sir, After design structure some beams & columns are not shown design. kindly help me with issue . PLEASE CHECK ATTACHED TEST MODEL. also give procedure for Dynamic design in Staad. Thanks. 2772.test model.STD
  • SIG Virtual Workshop: STAAD for EMEA – Using Solid Elements in STAAD.Pro

    S TAAD Special Interest Group for EMEA – Using Solid Elements in STAAD.Pro Host: Badreddine Ziane, Technical Manager, Bentley Systems, Inc. Date/Time: 26 March 2020 at 11:00 A.M. CET Register Now This STAAD Special Interest Group is structured…
  • SIG Virtual Workshop: STAAD - Seismic Time History Analysis in STAAD.Pro

    STAAD Special Interest Group: Seismic Time History Analysis in STAAD.Pro Host: Karimu Rashad , Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems, Inc. Date/Time: March 19, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. EDT Register Now This STAAD Special Interest Group virtual…
  • SIG Virtual Workshop: STAAD for EMEA – Composite Beam Design to the Eurocode Using RAM Beam

    STAAD Special Interest Group for EMEA: Composite Beam Design to the Eurocode Using RAM Beam Host: Badreddine Ziane, Senior Manager - Application Engineering, Bentley Systems, Inc. Guest Presenter: Richard Tully, Principal Technical Support Engineer, Bentley…
  • STAAD Pro Advanced CONNECT v22 Update 3 - No Steel Design Results

    Hello, I have a large model which in the normal STAAD Pro CONNECT v22 Update 2 took over 11 hours to run. I made some minor updates by adding some plan bracing and updated the effective lengths to try and remove some failures. I then updated to v22…