Forte Software Ideas

Deflection should be checked per code for Live, Snow or Wind, and Dead+Live combinations ONLY. Right now Forte fails beams due to the seismic load combination deflection.

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Hello, What happened to the idea of including the omega factor for seismic design of beams with holdown forces from above? It was on this site for over a year! Thank You.

searching for files requires you to scroll...if i can search for a specific name, will increase efficiency

I believe this was on the desktop version of Forte where you were able to add the roof loads of a hip roof onto a header.

We often get comments from building departments who look at the total loads to a support and are surprised by how high our loads are.We know "Member Reaction" is factored and shows the highest reaction, please provide that information for all supp...

For example, it would be nice to be able to apply a point load to the "middle" of the beam without having to calculate exactly what the middle location is considering the support widths. Additionally, if the support width changed, the load could a...

It is very easy to delete a member by accident because the red "X" button in the toolbar is right next to the copy member and member info buttons. Please add a pop-up window to confirm that you actually want to delete the member because there is n...

Lockout timer is an absolute waste of a "security" feature. Each 6 minute lockout costs me $25 of wasted time. 6 minute lockout multiplied by an engineers billing rate is roughly $25 in lost time each time we're locked out, get back in and up and ...

As an engineer, I appreciate the errors and warnings that Forte gives, but when I provide a design outside of forte for the uplift or other warnings, there should be a way to override the FAILING in Forte and allow it to show as passing. In this c...