Shape Editor

The Shape Editor application is used to create custom profiles, built-up shapes, and other profiles and save them as User-Provided Tables for use in STAAD.Pro.

Note: You must have a valid Structural SELECT Entitlements license in order to use Shape Editor.

Shape Editor uses the term section to refer to a structural cross sectional shape and its associated sectional properties that is stored in the Sections Library.

The term shape is used to refer to a geometric shape such as a polygon, circle, or rectangle or an assemblage of these shapes. A section is made up of one or more shapes.

Standard Database Files

Shape Editor operates with standard database files (.db3) available with STAAD.Pro.

Material Library

Limitations

Only the Steel material library is currently available for use in the Shape Editor.
For UNKOWN shapes, the properties AY, AZ, TD, and TB cannot be determined. Those properties will be set to zero (0) by default when exporting to a UPT. However, if the profile points are exported, then after importing the UPT into STAAD.Pro, the program can calculate the property values.
If imported shapes comprising of profile points only contain curved segments, then the plastic section moduli are approximate values. For example, for shapes created in Section Wizard FreeSketch and then imported as .cns or .con files.