Everyone knows that make proper mesh for complex geometry on the first try is impossible.

Robot makes perfect mesh, but, unfortunatelly uses only one core of CPU, so process is quite long on powerful computers. 

Please, make multuthreading support for meshing and we can save a lot of precious hours :-)!

Reference

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Robot-Structural/Steel-Design-Strength-in-Steel-Member-Design...

In some codes wind load is divided in two parts - dynamic and static. 

For example, in Russian Codes, the dynamic part of wind load depends on: static load, masses and natural frequency. 
Unfortunatelly, Robot hase no capabilities to calculate dynamic wind load automatically.

Quite long slabs on grade has irregular foundation pressure, thus they have to have irregularal elastic coefficient to calculate forces in slabs correctly.

Unfortunately, right now Robot has no capabilities to set non-constant elastic coefficient for the slabs.

Since 1 december 2011 steel code SNiP II-23-81 not used in Ukraine.

New Ukrainian RC code DBN B.2.6-98:2009 based on Eurocode 2.

It would be awesome to have such manuals to actually know what the program is calculating and to make the process of hand verification easier.

Could you include an easier way to choose which analyses are performed (check boxes)...currently having to change to 'auxilliary' and then back to whatever it was previously is a bit of a pain when switching between say earthquake and footfall analyses.  This would help speed up the calculation process.

I also think that editing of panels is in desperate need of updating with table input for geometry (I currently use the excel API that was posted on the forums and is a good intermediate step).  Could we also limit the accuracy of geometry when setting up the model to a predefined limit (say either 1mm or 10mm...it would also be a nice feature to be able to go to 5mm)...it's a real pain when the coordinate has somehow become 18.450000023 or something.

Ta,

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I would be very useful to see a more detailed user manual with some complete step by step tutorials (especially RC buildings) as mentioned here

here

Also more verification manuals would be helpful.

option for merging two bars into one bar

  It is strongly needed to have a module for design of composite steel and concrete members according to EC4.

implement ribbon menu

1. Send colour maps for panels to Revit 

2. Send internal forces for beams or nodes to revit for documentation

   When opening dwg or dxf files ,it should be possible to select the layers you want active as you can do when you import a dwg or dxf as background

For some calculations sometimes we need to take into account different Young modulus depending of the nature of load cases. This is expected for a single model, to avoid duplication of model data. We see such requirements in Eurocode and also AISC codes.

Working on my last project (it's an concrete structure, about 150 000 nodes and 170 000 FE-s) I was extremely annoyed by Robot Str 2013 general performance. For example, changing an load value is operation with time consumption not less that half of minute  on quite modern hardware (core i7 etc.). Changing values in tables is not much quicker...

I understand that you can recommend to use diaphagms instead shell etc, but in general - performance of Robot is not the best one, I can say the worst one. Now it is 2013 year and yes, sometimes we have to analyse and calculate models with more than 3 bars...

Here I do not speak of calculating time, meshing time - it's only problem of general performance, for example, changing load values in large scale models. So, my Idea is to optimize code (I'm fully understand that it can take a lot of time) to make Robot works much quicker. 

Function wich automaticly made brick wall ( plate with material, stiffness etc) from  contour

Splice connection between steel members. Also it would be very
useful the designer to have the information of the weight of the steel
connection.

Problem: The table editing tools in Robot are slow and have poor functionality. Usually it is better to copy the table to Excel and edit it there, but this can cause trouble (example: planar loads on contour becoming planar loads in my experience). Besides, for small changes this should not be neccessary.

Solution: Advanced table editing module or two way link to excel for all tables. Allows quick editing of tables, making changes to the model only when the user clicks apply.