STAAD Foundation Advanced Help

What's New in CONNECT Edition (v8.0.0)

The following list provides describes new or enhanced features of STAAD Foundation Advanced since V8i (SELECTseries 3) (Release 7.2). Release data: September 2015

Bentley Cloud Services

STAAD Foundation Advanced is now CONNECT Enabled. This means that you can associated your models with CONNECTED Projects from within the application to track application usage per project.

You must sign in with your Bentley CONNECT account. The Bentley CONNECTION Client is used to sign in and the status is displayed in the user icon in the top-right corner of the application window.

A new ribbon tab, Bentley Cloud Services, has been added which contains ProjectWise Project features and links to cloud portals.

Once you start a new STAAD Foundation Advanced project file or open an existing file that is not yet associated with a ProjectWise Project, you will be prompted to assign a ProjectWise Project to your file. A list of all registered projects in your organization is displayed. You can also register new projects (Only users with Admin/Co-admin roles can register a project). STAAD Foundation Advanced will display the ProjectWise Project name in the window title bar.