Forte Software Ideas

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...

Currently the software appears to limit certain K factors, particularly in the stud wall calculator/post calculator. It would be helpful to have defaults, but provide the option to set your Kzcp and other K factors for bearing conditions as per th...

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...

(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...

Like the picture on page 5 of the Canadian Wall Guide (TJ-9503), there are many situations where the top chords are sloped (ex : gable end wall). There is no where in ForteWeb to identify the top plates as being sloped so that the correct connecto...

Allow for a linked load to be tapered. For rafter loading on a ridge beam where the bottom of the rafter hits a valley. It could have 100% load at the full length end of the ridge beam and then taper to 0% where the top of the valley hits the ridg...

Make a module that can easily analyze weak axis bending of members for wind. Bonus points if you can design connections as well

I get the question quite often. "How far can I span with that beam" So given the load conditions it would be beneficial to see what the maximum spans of a beam or joist...

Adding a few keyboard shortcuts ( Add a load, ***copy a load***, etc) would increase productivity.

We like to save everything involved with a design/calc package in the same file. Beings your software automatically saves our calcs it would be nice to drop a copy of the plan we are sizing from in the same place. Simply a copy and paste action.