I am on a project to stamp structural steel design drawings completed by the engineers from other company. The engineers use STAAD Pro Connect Edition version 21.00.02.43 (CE21) in their analysis while my company has only Select Series 5 version 20.07.10.41 (SS5), and the project structures need to be designed to Canadian building code NBC2015.
I wonder is it appropriate or even workable to use the SS5 Version to validate the design results out from CE21? Is there any compatibility issues between those 2 versions, and does CE V21 can validate design results to meet NBC2015 requirements?
Thank you for your help in advance! I would greatly appreciate if you can answer my question at your earliest convenience (even great thankful if you could email me your answer, my email is alan.song@fluor.com).
Alan Song