Forte Software Ideas

The red back button in Materials Manager currently scrolls when the list is long and browser window small. Suggest the back button be sticky and always visible.

When I transfer loads from joists (which are necessarily repetitive members with a spacing) please default to " Uniform (PLF)". I don't understand why I would ever use the other two options(??) Maybe the help should explain this better. Also defau...

I was thrilled you folks have decided to add steel beams as a material. I am a wood technologist and a professional engineer, asnd I will gladly say I appreciate the steel options because I often would analyse a steel beam as an LVL beam and then ...

Thanks for adding steel beam design capability. This is convenient for the occasional steel member on a project with lots of ELP members! It appears the steel beam limits bearing based on wood bearing capacity even if a steel column is selected. C...

Love the steel beam feature. However, many of the steel shapes we would typically use in 4-5 story wood buildings are larger than the selection available (i.e. W18x106, or W21x101). Additionally, it may be better to not allow the user to proceed t...

On Drop beams ridge and valley when adding dead loads it includes the actual dead load based on the slope of the member. On the Roof Joist it doesn't have that information. Please add that to the roof joist for clarity.

It is harder to read and find the type of lumber one is searching for than it was before. It should be switched back to the way it was before.

It is difficult to supply a calc sheet to code officials using TB-506 as proof that our product is as strong as Boise Versalam.

Be able to export a wall header sized in Javelin at L/360-L/240 (Hard Coded) and check to see if the header will pass with snow roof load at L/240 - L/180 as code allows, without having to add a new member and re input all the loads.