Forte Software Ideas

For imported jobs with many members - this would save a lot of time so we don't have to select correct hanger depth for each member

Please add this function to Roof Members as well as floor members. Especially for Wind loads.

The commodity lumber materials should include stud grade. Residential homes typically don't buy #1 or #2 grade studs for the walls, and usually for 2x6 built-up headers (for example: if the home is framed with 2x6 stud grade walls then those same ...

A lot of the older residences that we work on use true sized dimensional lumber such as an old growth 2x8 is actually 2" by 8". When checking if the spans would be sufficient, we typically would select an SPF 2x8 to be conservative but it would be...

When copying members, it will send the copied member to the bottom of the list of whatever level your working on. I think it would be easier to have the copied member directly below the original member. When the level has a lot of members, it gets...

Steel isn't restricted to floors in real life. So why is it in Forte?

ForteWeb is not showing the correct hanger or even hanger maufacturer for members exported out of mitek's sapphire. This means the hangers on the calc are incorrect and do not match the layout. The hanger shown in Forteweb calc may even require we...

Sometimes for notched TJI joists, a repair is not possible and we have to frame around the damage and send new header loads to adjacent joists. I would love it if FW had a "loading assistant" - similar to what we do in the Loads tab for window hea...

Having a location on the Job Tree that shows a list of recently deleted members or a place to archive members would be useful especially if changes in the project required reverting to older members previously designed but removed or unused. We co...