Forte Software Ideas

via Rob Miller: The Mitek software (and others) allow their designers to design for lateral loads in the drag/collector truss, as specified the project engineer of record. This makes conversion and original TJI specification by project engineers d...

It would be nice to see what Level Name the beam is located on when Linking loads. Right now it lists the beam name but if we have a beam labelled C1 on the first floor and the second floor level it would be hard to tell them apart without going i...

The ability to input the importance category of the building would be helpful. Currently the importance category is assumed "Normal" and a SLS importance factor of Is=0.9 is applied for snow load deflections. However, if the building is "High Impo...

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

If there is a timer when a file is accidentally closed and inadvertently "locked" by "another team member" when if was really just an accidental close, it needs to be shortened. A lot.

Please include the option to use Glulams for roof or floor joists. On projects where clients wish to use glulam rafters it would be quicker to be able to design as a common joist in order to compare different spacings as opposed to designing glula...

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

Roof pitch calculations for structural integrity