STAAD.Pro 2007 has been released and is now available for download from the Bentley SELECT servers
STAAD.Pro 2007 has been released with a number of new features to enhance the experience of creating models, enhanced second order analysis and access to a significantly faster analysis engine for larger more demanding structures that have taken hours or days to analyze, can be measured in seconds.
What has been provided in STAAD.Pro 2007 includes the following features:
Features Affecting the Pre-Processor (Modeling Mode)
- New Start Page
- Enhanced Grid Tool.
- Fly-out toolbars
- Physical Member Query
- In-plane area loads on plates
- Front to front channels
- Automatic property calculation of User Provide Table (UPT) angle sections
- Consolidation of multiple property references
- Section property reduction in analysis to account for cracking
- Tension /Compression only spring supports
- Enhanced ELASTIC MAT / PLATE MAT options
- Reference load cases
- Enhanced Beta Angle Definition and Assignment
Features Affecting the Analysis and Design Engine
- P-Delta analysis including stress stiffening effect of the KG matrix
- P-Delta analysis including small Delta
- Modal Analysis including stress stiffening effect of KG Matrix
- Buckling Load analysis
- Enhanced Master/Slave command processing
- Advanced Solver
- Eurocode 3:2005
Features Affecting the Post-Processor (Results Mode)
- Static Check Table
Features Affecting the Concrete Design Mode
- Beam and Column Designs to the Russian Concrete code SP52
Features Affecting the Connection Design Mode
- RAM Connection Design Mode
Features Affecting the Piping Mode
- Persistency of Pipe models
Additionally over 90 items requested by clients or registered by our technical support teams with earlier versions of STAAD.Pro have been addressed and identified in the Revision History document.