Forte Software Ideas

The situation where beams are used to catch load bearing walls above happens all the time in typical wood framing. The ability to link wall loads as line loads to beams would simplify the process tracking all the load combinations from the wall ab...

Forte provides for most common Steel beam sizes. But I deal with both loads on existing structures & needing beams beyond those now in Forte: 5", 6", & 7" I-beams HSS square & rectangular Existing A36 beams, particularly during remodels

I would like the ability to share our user settings from user to user. With our companies expanding EWP design team, It would be extremely helpful to have the ability to share our user settings with new users. With this capability we would not hav...

Since Last few weeks while switching tabs & specially switching tabs on solution & report it take too much time to show results & many of the time it stuck over there & need to refresh web page to go back,

I'd like the ability to enter a deflection limit in inches (not L/xxx) on the Member Info tab.

Residential decks with 300' of salt water require all stainless steel connectors. I'd love to be able to select that option at hangers and have Forte list it for me.

The idea is to add a selectable option to include a black page either at the beginning or end of the "Printed Design Members" report as a print option. Quite often I'm adding partial plans or some other diagram/photo/sketch to these calc packages....

Just checking someone's work in the office and they had forgotten to add PT to their deck members. When I went to add it only showed PSL's as option. Please revise to allow 2x_ and 4x_ members. 6x_ members large enough so no PT reduction applies t...

We use flitch plates between to keep beam depths down.

Separate loads by some visual difference in visual diagram. Be able to tell at a glance what kind of loads are bearing on that beam instead of a solid blue block. Helpful for anyone double checking what kind of loads are used on beam. Possibly tie...