Forte Software Ideas

It would be helpful to add the ability to resize the width of the Link and Transfer Support Reactions window, similar to what was shipped with resizing the Member Tree List. Currently all member sizes are cut off due to a narrow list window, and w...

Forte tutorials would be a lot easier to understand if you provided the basic design procedures: 1 - Design of a simple joist with and with out a overhang 2 - Deign of a simple exterior wall header with a roof load 3 - Design of a simple exterior ...

It would be helpful, for us non-engineers, to have the load entry further defined and clarified as to what is required for the PLF and the PSF.

Please make levels movable.

Steel is allowed as plate material in free-standing posts so it would be helpful if it could also be used for in-wall column design, especially for instances where the king stud is designed to sit directly on footing rather than on bottom sill plate.

It would be nice to be able to have composite members. As in, you have 2x6 rafters that won't be adequate with another 2x6 sistered to the side. Instead if we could allow for a composite section modulus and make the second ply a 2x8 we could prope...

When working on projects with many unique members in a floor, it would be useful to be able to organize different member types into subfolders. Example. On my level 2 I have 20 different headers and 15 different beams. It would be nice to put the ...

What is the reason for this? It is permissible per code to apply overstrength to seismic loads on any structural wood member, including sawn lumber.

It should work just like the uniform quick loads.