Forte Software Ideas

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.

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...

add more of the larger sizes - 10x10. 10x12, 10x14, 10x16 etc.

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.

Create and keep updated/sync’d an Excel .XLS that would have the summary of the components that I have designed. Ideally on my computer, but a downloadable file could be made to work. AutoCAD (and I presume others) can link and paste dynamic a spr...

Make it easier to read and save row space. Use fill shading to highlite only sparate levels (or categories).

this would help the selection of simpson hurricane connectors

Would make foundation load tracking a lot easier to see everything in one file. Either pdf or excel/.csv format would be great