Forte Software Ideas

It would be useful to list the reference design values and adjustment factors used in member design in the final report.

I often use center to center distance when specifying span lengths. It would be more convenient if I could click on an bullet option at the top rather than have to select "Custom Dimension Locations" and then select center for each span.

Headers and beams above glazing often are designed to strict deflection criteria that is provided in inches/mm. It would be helpful to be able to specify this limit and have Forte report if it is satisfied in the alaysis output.

Please see Table 1B from NDS Supplement to see which beams are missing. Thanks.

I would like the option to design projects using LRFD. Especially in projects where I have steel and concrete elements mixed into a predominantly wood structure.

When editing a member with a linked load and attempting to delete a span or the member all together a warning message says... "Removing a support location that contains a linked load reference will result in an invalid load for other members in th...

For fire rated areas in a building, optional design factors

The graphic for vertical wall members appear to be in plank orientation regardless of the solution selected. It would be nice if this reflected the selected orientation.

It would be nice if more sizes such as 3x4, 4x4, 3x6, 2x8, etc. were added as options for each wood grade and species when designing the wall studs.

It would be nice of Forte just remembered that you typed 1+ ___mm or 2| or M so you don't have to go back and re-input all of your loads if you increase support width due to a bearing failure.