Forte Software Ideas

It would be helpful to analyze members not made of the materials listed in the library. I.E. i have a client who wants to use rough sawn Oak for a drop beam member.

A recent tall wall stud design exercise showed the design wind pressure used on the reports page, which was for the default interior wall Zone 4. The only way to design for the wall end Zone 5 is to deselect the automatic assignment of wind load o...

This would help trying to looking up the snow loads for the area the structure is located. Saves having to open a blank javelin file and figuring out the snow loads for that area. The wind loading info is there so it would be just a mater of addin...

I frequently do renovations to older homes where the framing is not dressed. A 2x8 is actually 2"x8". It would be nice to have the option of using undressed sizes in the software.

At the moment, stud walls and posts in walls are not analyzed to include Kb and Kzb factors, as forte cannot tell if the location of the end of the member is not within 75mm. However, stud walls are typically always run with these factors. I am su...

The "team" aspect of ForteWEB" is an integral component to bringing the web software up to par with the previous non-web-based software version. Unfortunately, editing and viewing documents created by different users in a shared team is very uncoo...

I love FORTE, and want to use it more. Add products by competitors like PacificWoodtech or BoiseCascade so that I can do all my design in one place.

It scrolls back to load #1 when I'm deleting loads. I commonly have imported beams with many loads. Often I consolidate loads and need to delete some. Would be nice if the scroll bar stayed put after loads are deleted instead of having to scroll b...

Point PLF loads are currently limited to 99', but should be allowed to go to 9999'. I try to use Point PLFs to add estimated girder truss point loads, so the 99' limitation makes me use my calculator to manually compute the dead and snow loads ins...

(Sorry for my bad english) Sometimes, in a project, we have to add spans for different reasons (test or bad engineering from the beginning). It would be nice to be able to add a span on the left side or between existing spans. In fact, we must del...