Forte Software Ideas

It would be helpful for the Header calculation to include more than a single ply member as most headers are 2+ plies.

when doing members in areas where there are different roof loads 35-10-10 as opposed to 30-10-10 or different spacing 40-5-10 loading at 16" or 19.2" or 24" spacing.

Once the criteria for a member is entered, it would be vastly better to see a menu of choices that show options that all meet the criteria. So it might say USE TJI 110 11 1/2" at 12" on center or TJI 210 11 1/2" at 16" on center or TJI 550 9 1/2" ...

It's annoying :)

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Chief Building official has commented that I am not designing to current code. 2018 I.R.C is not available as a drop down selection option.

Please make the loading diagram show on the Loads page as they are added - not after the member is designed. It isn't right to have to design a member to find out in the Report that the diagram (loading) is wrong.

The biggest thing I am missing is the input graphic. The inability to see immediate information entry errors is detrimental to time and accuracy. Remainder I can deal with, however I do wonder how it will be after I have several hundred projects ...

Being able to set the program defaults would make designing much quicker. Such as setting the bearing length or type and having loads already preset to regularly used settings such as top loaded and PLF etc. That way when you start a new job all y...

For some multiple ply lvl's, it would be useful to see what combinations of nailing/screwing patterns work.