Forte Software Ideas

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

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...

We run into these a lot in high end residential design, so I end up using different software to design these members.

When users get a failure and no results show on the solutions tab (see attachment) could you add a message near the top or near "failed" advising users to click on the Report tab for additional failure messages?

When designing a stud in a tall wall, we are limited to inputting loads as either Point (lb) or Point (PLF). I like to do as much loading with Uniform (PSF) as possible. Currently I have to pull out my calculator to manually convert my loads from ...

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 to be able to size glulams with pressure treatment. I have to use a separate piece of software to size those. Would be nice to be able to rely on just 1 software package.

time saving when dealing with similar loading