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No they are not legitimate licenses if chief does not authorize the sale. It is a breach of the user contract and thus becomes an illegitimate copy same as a pirated copy.

They have stated this three times in this thread as well as the email sent out. The SSA price is not going up on Jan 10th... Can you say that in your business three years from now you won't have a need to raise your prices for services offered? They had to raise SSA last year from $525 to $595 to help defray parts of the costs. They have stated this year it is not going up. That is all we can ask for. Again, their intention as stated several times by them is not to punish their regular clients who use ssa and pay their part to further development. The issue is too many users who use old versions of the software and expect to not pay for ssa which gives upgrades and that the old version will work forever... That doesn't work in software. Never has. Otherwise you could complain that Windows 3.1 no longer works and how dare windows charge for an upgrade??

That very point adds to my point regarding lack of revenue to chief by users who do not help with future development and thus should not reap benefits from it if they are not willing to keep SSA valid for $50 a month... These are pirated versions as it is and is again part of the issue.

So what is the difference to any other older program that is no longer being supported when it get's phased out because Windows or Mac decides to change their OS and it no longer works? Same circumstances really. I am not a fan of the new system either but I also use chief professionally so $595 a year for support (which I don't generally use), and the opportunity to keep current with the latest work is literally 4.5 hours of work per year to pay for it... Keep current and no issues. Chief's intention is not to phase out older users. It's to make up for the lack of revenue that all of the users who now do not stay current on their ssa and help defray a portion of the development costs. If not enough users are helping with that cost then its either they change their system to stay current/relevant or die. I love chief and make a good living using it as my #1 tool. I want to see them succeed as well as help me to be more efficient each year as well as has been the case. It's nothing new to change your business model and pricing model. Heck I gave two price increases this past year due to the rapid inflation costs. Am I happy about it, No, but I see it as a great show of respect that they are keeping SSA to the current price for those loyal users for the foreseeable future.

This has been asked twice and answered by chief in this thread.

It has to do with the room divider you are using to delineate your kitchen and dining areas. It is making Chief not know how to handle that case. But Since you are trying to accomplish this: Set your Porch room above to have the floor provided by the room below. And your slab to build on top of the foundation stem wall: and you get this result: All auto build.

Never Mind I just opened your plan and they are just not aligned. You see that blue line with the black arrow facing up in the edit toolbar in my picture? That is the "align with wall above" tool. Do that and it will fix your issue.

How about your foundation wall? Did you draw it in a clockwise order so that the exterior of the wall is facing out like your exterior wall above?

Make sure the "exterior" sides of the walls are aligned between the two walls. If one is reversed then depending on your wall definition it may not align properly even when using align wall tool.

This is the Chief Architect forums so most users will not have valuable information for this particular question. Check out Home Talk which is dedicated to that software: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/5-qa/

Look at the first page of the schedule dbx and the help file for scale and what scale to use.

He is not a licensed architect but a pretty good architectural designer in that area. I know he has some good engineers to help with any structural assistance needed. @Beautiful1

Very much so. This has also been asked three times in the past month. So when we mark the correct solution when others are searching they will come across multiples and be able to go directly to the answer and not make another post which can "muddy" the waters of the search features on the forum. Good clean answer from @glennw

I am sure. Just was surprised to see that it is classified as a product and not a service which in Washington would make the difference of paying tax or not.

I thought the same thing as well... Not sure of Idaho state tax law though so maybe its a product for them? I am under Washington state and my services are not taxed but if I print plans for someone it becomes a product and have to charge sales tax.

I just renewed this month and was charged $595 plus tax.

Best to start your own question. But to answer your question once you have one of the walls selected that button will show up in the edit toolbar (specific to the selected item). Note this will only happen if the wall above or below is within a certain distance (within the general main layer window) or slightly off of being linearly aligned.

X14 was way less glitchy than x13. Most likely if you are seeing issues at this point with x14 it is a hardware issue or your template plan that is not dialed in for the x14 changes.

Glad that solved your issue. To help others who are searching for the same issue it is common to mark the answer that was correct as solving your issue so when someone has the same problem and the future does a search they can find the answer quickly.

Looks like your first floor exterior walls are set as a foundation wall set to build footings below in your structure panel of the wall dbx.

try setting it to trim framing to soffits in roof dbx

Place a bed. Convert it to a millwork symbol.

The majority of the doors in the library are not parametrically setup to make these adjustments but the door tool with chief is. Just a heads up for what you just learned for the future. Looks great btw!

Exactly the point. Doesn’t mean there aren’t users out there that don’t keep up with and can do the work you need. It is just a general indicator.