Forte Software Ideas

Forte generates support ids: "support 1", "support 2" etc When I'm dealing with a column grid labeled on my drawings horizontally A, B, C, D... and vertically 1, 2,3,4... I want to label the supports meaningfully like B4, C2 etc. Please add this f...

time saving when dealing with similar loading

Adding this column will make it so I can add on the summary the same label that is on the House Plans. Might also be able to be be used to for the sku number for material list.

Would like to be able to design Glulam columns.

Could you make it easier to duplicate a job? We often copy an old job since it's similar to a new job, and with almost 500 job folders it's more work than it should be to make a copy of an old job and rename the copy to the new job address. When w...

we use these lumber types in some of our horse barns and we have no way off getting a precise span for the joists without getting a structural Engineer involved

Recent trends in home design have made for large overhead door openings with large header loads. Currently sizing the trimmers require using the "wall column" mode or "free standing column" mode. Both are not the exact fit for sizing trimmers to s...

I have a misc file to run random calcs and sometimes I forget that I have a file for an address and I run a calc than I remember I had a specific file for that job, it would be nice to export the calc instead of redoing it.

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 ...

When linking loads I wish we could simply check full length. During tweaks when length changes it's an unnecessary step to go in and have to adjust the length over which the load acts. Thank you.