Forte Software Ideas

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...

allow for undelete of folders and projects.

Users would like to have the option to add comments to provide additional information about the spans/supports for a member.

in the report tab of Forte often times a detail is referenced. How about to also include a direct link to that detail on your web page.

Now that red shading has been added to denote products not available in the selected zip code, it can easily be miss understood that the red highlighted product is failing.

XML files from Sapphire currently do not contain the web stiffener preferences as specified by the design/designer. It would be nice to have these come over when importing into ForteWEB and/or use the preference that is set in ForteWEB.

Tired of having to manually find jobs in my huge list of projects that I've worked on, seems like the search function actually works about 20% of the time (if that) I don't know if I'm somehow not using it correctly but the search function should ...

Add ability to change Importance Category of the Building (NBCC), this would change the wind load values calculated by Forte.

I often use Glulam beams for long span headers and would like to be able to analyze them using Forte. It would be nice to be able to apply gravity and lateral loads to glb's for a bi-directional analysis.

It would be nice to be able to click on certain loads in the loads tab and have the display above show you which load in the display is the load you clicked on. For example, by clicking on a partial uniform roof load and having it turning green in...