Forte Software Ideas

When patch printing a ForteWeb job pack, our Weyerhaeuser Notes disclaimer verbiage is printed for every member calculation, most often leading to excess pages with just this note on every other page. Lots of blank space produced on pages. How abo...

If possible, please allow steel results to be sorted by weight. Thank You

The report clearly states that holes are only checked for engineered lumber. Why? Add the simple hole calcs to the software or why do you even have the ability to add holes? Anyone can check a table for max holes sizes and depths for TJI's, and yo...

I am always selecting the wrong member in the link function because I have to go back and count how many lines down the member I want is in the main menu and then count in the link function. So irritating.

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...

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...

As of now, it seems that the only mode of linking a wall load to a beam below is as a point load. It would be extremely useful to be able to transfer this load as a distributed load to the beam below since the wall, in this case, is bearing on the...

For walls, we typically use stud grade 2x6. It would be nice to see stud grade as a material option.

It would be great to be able to analyze gable roofs with rafter ties and to analyze the rafter ties themselves.