STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition

About this release

STAAD.Pro is one of the long standing structural analysis packages, and it covers the whole span from building a model to producing the calculation report an engineer signs. Frames, trusses, plates, solids and cable structures are all modelled in the same environment, and the solver handles static, dynamic, seismic, wind, thermal and nonlinear cases from one model rather than requiring a separate setup for each.

The design side is what separates an analysis package from a solver. Once the model resolves, member design runs against the code the project is governed by, and the software carries a large collection of international and regional codes for steel, concrete, timber, aluminium and cold formed sections. Members are checked, ratios reported, and failing sections can be resized and rechecked without leaving the results view.

Load handling is thorough in the way structural work demands. Load cases combine according to code defined rules rather than by hand, moving loads run across bridge decks, response spectra and time history cases handle seismic work, and wind loading generates from the governing code against the model geometry. Every combination is traceable back to the rule that produced it, which is what makes the output defensible in review.

Output is built for the document that has to leave the office. Reports assemble from selected results with tables, diagrams and model views, and export runs to spreadsheets and to the documentation formats a project archive expects. Interoperability with the wider modelling ecosystem means geometry arrives from and returns to the building model rather than being redrawn.

What it does

One model, many analysis types

Static, dynamic, seismic, wind, thermal and nonlinear cases run against the same geometry.

International code checking

Steel, concrete, timber, aluminium and cold formed design against a large collection of regional codes.

Automatic load combination

Combinations generate from code rules and stay traceable back to the rule that produced them.

Moving and response loads

Bridge deck moving loads, response spectra and time history cases handled natively.

Design and resize in place

Failing members are resized and rechecked without leaving the results environment.

Report generation

Calculation reports assemble from selected results with tables, diagrams and model views.

Changed in this version

• Solver performance improved on very large plate models.
• Code packs refreshed to current published revisions.
• Report builder reworked with a clearer section ordering interface.
• Improved geometry exchange with building model formats.
• Fixed a meshing issue on complex curved plate regions.

System requirements

Install order

1. Unpack the archive to a short path.
2. Install the bundled prerequisite runtime components first if the installer asks.
3. Run the main installer and allow the code packs to deploy.
4. Open the application once and set the default code and unit system for the office.

Worth knowing before you start

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