Forte Software Ideas

In some instances, floor joists fail as single members at 16" O.C. Doubling everyone is overkill and 12" O.C. works but is difficult for HVAC and Plumbing Contractors to work with. Noting to double every other joist at 16" O.C. is something our fi...

How about adding a bounding box to each load on the member. It is difficult to tell by a massive line what is happening to the individual parts.

Some building officials who receive ForteWEB Member Reports (or other software output) have asked how they can be sure the document has not been modified by the user. I suspect it leads to some engineer seal requests due to lack of trust in the do...

Then we don't have to 'fake' a member in a different place to check deflections.

Assing loads easier, I work with 3 typical roof loads, metal roof, composition shingles and tile roof. That way once you open a new member to analyze the desired load is already in place instead of writing each time the load or using the quick loa...

Certain municipalities want to see proof that all load combos have been considered. Currently this requires individually generating a pdf for each member. Can you add an option to the job summary that allows for generation of a full detailed repor...

the program needs to have custom made sizes for roof or floor joists design. let say we have existing 2x6@24"o.c. roof rafters. we are vaulting this roof and need to add new 2x10 roof rafters i need to combine the two sizes to make it work. the pr...

There should be an option to input camber for glulam beams so that if a beam doesn't have to "fail" when deflection criteria isn't met. The camber would be a part of the beam design output, e.g. 5 1/2" x 9 1/2" 24F-V4 DF Glulam w/ 1/2" camber.

Currently, if a member which is linked to another member is renamed, the comments do not automatically update with the new linked member's name. For example, say a floor joist named "FJ-01" is used as a linked load on a beam. The comments on the l...