STAAD PRO TEXT EDITOR SOFTWARE

* NISA, the general FEM package comes along with NISA/Civil. * NISA/Civil gives wonderful structural drawings that can be opened in AutoCAD. They are STAAD.Foundation and SAFE respectively.

STAAD PRO TEXT EDITOR SOFTWARE

* STAAD.Pro and ETABS has additional software for foundation design (especially mat). * STAAD.Pro and ETABS has facility for design as per IS:13920 (ductile detailing). Auto calculation of beam reinforcements based on moments at column face, rather than at column centreline and column reinforcements based on moments at beam soffit, rather than at beam centreline

Choice of Eigen or Ritz vector for Response Spectrum analysis Automatic lumping of masses for earthquake (STAAD doesn’t have this, STRAP and NISA/Civil has) Diaphram action (with earthquake loads and wind loads automatically applied on the diaphragm centre) Design of columns with cross section of any arbitrary shape (including T, L, +. Floor load for irregular panels, that is easy to do (STRAP too has this) Earth quake force can be applied in any angle (not just X and Y alone) Live load reduction for upper floors (STAAD doesn’t have this) Shear wall design that’s practically very useful (STRAP also has this. * ETABS is the most advanced (from among what I’ve seen). * The text editor facility for the model input file makes STAAD.Pro the most versatile for model creation and modification (when I get fed up fumbling with the menus of ETABS, I work with the ASCII file of ETABS, but, it not being meant for user editing, is so very cumbersome to do – but still I do).

* STAAD.Pro is the most widely used one in Asia

I have worked with STAAD extensively earlier, but now I work mostly with ETABS and that’s why I have given a list of advantages of ETABS in my view (please don’t mistake me – I’m not trying to market it):. Here are some points I believe will be useful.

Staad pro text editor