Forte Software Ideas

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...

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

Imported members continually default to Hem Fir rather than the actual product modeled in Javelin (usually SPF).

Seeing who last worked on the project doesn't allow you to see what's been changed. There have been many times we have wished we could see who last touched a calc whether to see if the boss changed something I did or to track when a mistake happen...

When reporting damage to a product it is usually helpful for the engineer to see what the damage looks like.

Often we don't know the joist spacing so better to specify as pressure load and internally convert to joist line load. PLF loading is error prone - many users will assume joist spacing and forget to update when they finalize the design.

Material Application (Roof Rafter, Floor Joist) Span (16') Calculate (Pass/Fail & deflection, shear & moment diagrams)

I think a good feature to add would be to group beams together more than is allowed by the Levels. For instance, I might have beams in Level 4, then if I want to group beams together for, say, a deck I would have a folder under that called "Deck P...

As it is now, you have to select the each beam while in the report, wait for forte to load, then scroll down to see the reaction loads. With 60 beams in a project, it gets very tiresome. If this was somehow integrated into the job summary comments...

This would be convenient because instead of switching from beam to beam to get the reactions, all of the reactions are displayed in the summary.