Forte Software Ideas

Design Flitch Beams

It would be really helpful if you can design a flitch beam within Forte Web.

  • Guest
  • Mar 6 2020
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  • Guest commented
    14 Jul 05:12pm

    Please add the ability to calculate flitch beams.

  • Guest commented
    17 Oct, 2024 08:02pm

    There is a lot more to designing flitch beams than just the member calcs. There is bolting both for the intermediate spacing and the ends and special bearing checks etc. This Design is likely best left to other paid for design programs. I am not plugging them, but I do use EnerCalc's Flitch Beam module and it works pretty well.

  • Guest commented
    20 Sep, 2024 12:51pm

    Would it be possible to add Flitch Beam analysis/design into Forte-Web software? It would definitely be a great option when you have depth limitation with LVL usage alone.

  • Guest commented
    8 Mar, 2024 09:07pm

    It looks like my post was merged with another flitch beam post. Please Weyerhauser keep merging the other flitch beam posts, I bet there are over 100 votes if it's all consolidated!

  • Guest commented
    22 Dec, 2023 03:45pm

    It would be a big help to specify flitch beams. It would work perfectly with the LVL beams already being designed.

  • Guest commented
    23 Dec, 2022 04:45pm

    Would like to see a flitch beam option in this program.

  • Guest commented
    19 Aug, 2022 02:08pm

    FLITCH ADDS STRENGTH WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO CALC IT FOR LUMBER HEADERS ETC.