Forte Software Ideas

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...

Member lengths / spans in the 'Full Detail Report' are not matching what has been inputted into the 'Spans & Supports' section (i.e. a specified span of 20' 6.00" is displayed as 20' 0.00" in the 'Full Detail Report'). The default member repor...

I cosistently have applications using ICF walls below a TJI floor diaphragm with a SIP wall above. The sip wall must be supported continiously.

Would be nice to be able to check tapered end cuts for TJI like we can for beams. Right now we use TB-805 and a spreadsheet to check.

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.

CFS Designer by Strong-Tie fully designs members around an opening for c&c wind and vertical loads as sort of a module. This would be a game changer for Forte to have a module just like this so we dont have to design in a peicemeal manner.

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...

be able to customize dimensions of beam by species. A lot of builders doing "modern rustic" are using rough sawn actual size beams and it would help design better