A 45-member frame with 2,000+ combinations takes STAAD four to five minutes to solve — and all that time buys one answer: pass or fail on the sections you already guessed. Optimize it properly and that’s ten runs and an hour gone, with still no proof anything lighter exists. The PEB Optimization Tool sweeps the entire tapered I-section space — flange × web × taper — and returns the lightest IS 800 / AISC compliant frame. One pass. About a minute.
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Every PEB designer has run into all four, and none of them are visible on a project plan. Each one, and what changes.
5–10 STAAD runs a frame, 1–3 minutes each, waiting on every one.
30 min – 1 hr
One pass. Nothing to wait for between runs, because there are none.
under a minute
You stop at the first section that passes utilisation.
heavier than it needs to be
Every viable flange × web × taper checked against the code.
the lightest that passes
Juniors guess, the senior calls it heavy, they guess again.
hours to a first cut
A code-compliant starting section to refine, not correct.
seconds
No answer to “how light can this frame actually go?”
quote high and lose it, low and eat it
An objective lower bound on the steel, from the code itself.
a number you can show
Honest scope, in plain language. Engineers respect what a tool refuses to do.
One walkthrough — a PEB structure taken through the optimizer end-to-end.
Start with a free trial inside the app. Paid time is added on top of whatever you have, so renewing early never costs you a day.
Buy here or inside the application; one account works for both. Payments via Razorpay. Prices in INR. Need several seats, or a plan that is not listed here? Contact us.
I’ve spent 9+ years designing steel structures, including a lot of PEBs. I run an OpenSTAAD cohort that has trained over a hundred civil engineers in writing their own STAAD plug-ins. I built this because the iteration loop on tapered frames was the single most frustrating part of my own week — and the math told me it didn’t have to be.
The floor is STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition V22 Update 10. That release and every edition since — V23, V24, V25 and the current one — are supported. Anything older than V22 Update 10 will not run. We track each new Bentley release and ship a compatibility patch within days.
Yes. Download the installer and run it, then sign in inside the app to start the free trial on this computer — full calculations, with export, save and print unlocked when you buy. One trial per computer.
IS 800 (Indian Standard, current revision) and AISC 360 (LRFD and ASD). You pick the code per project; both can be used on the same license.
No. It is a standalone optimizer that runs alongside STAAD. Your file formats, your workflow, your license, all unchanged.
Yes. Use the contact form below and we’ll set up multi-seat licensing tailored to your team size, with consolidated invoicing and a named onboarding contact.
UPI, Indian and international credit/debit cards, and netbanking — all processed through Razorpay from inside the app. Prices are in INR.
Every plan is a fixed block of time, paid once, no auto-renewal and nothing to cancel. Buy again whenever you like: new time is added on top of what you have. Your licence follows your account, so you can move between computers; it runs on one at a time.
Active subscribers get free compatibility patches. We test against every CONNECT Edition release and ship updates so your license keeps working.
No. The optimizer runs locally — the search runs on your machine. Only license validation hits a server. Your .std files never leave your computer.
Drop a line below or email peboptimization@gmail.com directly — either way it reaches us.
