A better way to override how multi-layered materials such as walls, ceilings, floors join. Currently the only real way to do it is the Cut Profile on the view toolbar, which is very time consuming and doesn't always deliver the results you want. Every single tutorial i've seen on Revit has neatly avoided this issue by always using massive generic walls without layers. I mean, who draws the different material layers in plans and sections anyway, right? Well, just about every architect in existence.
Better ways to monitor the parametric behaviour:
When i first started using Revit, i thought how great it ways that i could simply lock elements together and change them afterwards, so i could worry about exact dimensions later. Little did I know that as soon as things start getting more complex than two edges that are joined, Revit tends to give about a gazillion errors whenever I try to move an item that is linked to other items, each of which practically impossible to solve because the software is completely incompetent at showing me where the problems are (conflicting items get highlighted, what a joke). An item tree that shows relations between objects would be neat.
Being able to unlock/unconstrain an item from all other items in the model would be nice, so you can move it independently while knowing that you aren't changing anything that you can't see in the current view. Being able to place an object and making sure Revit doesn't automatically connect, join, link it to anything else. Often I get the idea that Revit is trying to do the thinking for me, and it's not very good at it. I am a newbie at Revit; only did a couple of school projects with it, but those are my biggest frustrations with the software. It has often happened that two walls on different floors were automatically joined to eachother without me knowing it, causing me to have lots of headaches.
Not really for me, but:
I once tried making a portal frame in Revit Structure, using a youtube video as a tutorial. The profiles had to be manually cut using reference planes; and the connection plates manually drawn as in place families. Is this really a software that is actually used by contractors in the steel construction industry? I can only imagine the headaches of trying to create shop drawings for welded and bended connection pieces. I guess you are almost required to buy Inventor alongside it. But then why use Revit Structure in the first place? I mean, what market is it trying to reach, exactly?
Best regards
Kasper Wuyts
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