Forte Software Ideas

Add additional items in the 'Help' dropdown menu to allow users to more readily and correctly find the appropriate resources for their need.

A request from a specifier: can we add links to relevant TB's like TB-860 etc to our Location Analysis Tab? This helps customers when a repair or header-off detail is needed. Links like this to our YouTube channel were also deemed helpful: https:/...

It would be nice to have the ability to click on the "Details" column under Multiple Member Connections and open a new page displaying the connection details page or more precisely providing a bolt diagram as an extra page to the calc.

There is no Link loads on mobile version, iPad and Google Chrome.

The interface is a nightmare navigating between files, folders, documents, etc. It takes forever to find a job and create a job. Folders are in complete disarray.

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.

I work on some pretty gnarly custom homes where I have long spans and heavy floor finishes. Sometimes the beam sizes in forte just aren't enough.

It would be nice to have a module to design the entire opening similar to how many popular CFS software handles openings (see openings). Features include:Design of header for gravity and lateral. Option to use header, and/or a plate fastened to to...

If a beam is linked to another beam and its name is changed, then it doesn't update in the loads tab of the beam it is linked to. In the capture below, it shows BM S2 is linked to BM S2 (doesn't make sense). If I change the name of a member that i...