It would be really helpful if you can design a flitch beam within Forte Web.
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Please add the ability to calculate flitch beams.
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.
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.
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!
It would be a big help to specify flitch beams. It would work perfectly with the LVL beams already being designed.
Would like to see a flitch beam option in this program.
FLITCH ADDS STRENGTH WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO CALC IT FOR LUMBER HEADERS ETC.