Site Designer is quite clever in concept but there is a bit of a flaw (in my opinion at least) in the way there is a complete re-creation of the toposurface at every edit.
Just in simple testing I've found the software generated topo has some extra points that cause odd terrain behavior that need to be removed. All this work gets undone at evey siteworks edit. Similarly with any topo manipulation not using the Site Designer tools. Any edits are ignored then the Site Designer tools are called upon to edit the surface again becuase it seems to be rebuilding from the base topo.
Its great if you can use 100% site designer edits as it mean features can be removed but there really should be an option to located as direct manipulations of a selected topo. Site designer shouldn't always effectively undo edits made using tools on the Massing and Site tab.
Also, given that there is a roads category hard coded into Revit I hope with expect the streets and sidewalks created with these tools to actually be in those categories sometime soon...
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Dear Russ,
Thanks for your forum thread.
I understand your ideas and concerns and I wanted you to inform you, that I have forwarded it to our Development as a wish for product enhancement.
A related product enhancement will be considered and scheduled by Autodesk´s Product Design and Development Team.
I´d like to encourage you to share your product feedbacks, ideas or suggestions about desired product enhancements with Autodesk in the future as well.
Use one of the sites as follows to send requests or ideas directly to the Autodesk product design and development team, or log a case for it in Subscription Center to be able to discuss it with a support specialist.
Autodesk Produktfeedback Site
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794
Autodesk Knowledge Network - Community Site
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/community
Thanks again for advising us of these opportunities for product enhancemens.
Best regards,
Zsolt Varga
Autodesk Technical Support