I am just now starting in 10 so my experience is based on 9
There is just one problem with the visual pallet: it is fixed in one place.
With a large project this is a non working solution or waste of time to find where is a pallet. It is unfortunate that one could not place wall in sections or that AC will not allow for at least two plan windows open at the same time.
I use a section window called symbols where I have all the possible symbols for, this has the advantage that follows the plan combination it is fixed and to get to it take just touching its visible corner and than you are ready to pick up the desired element.
I personally could not believe that 10 did not address this long outstanding problem,
Maybe the now will solve this provided that “our Germans are better than theirs “