Many basics could, in my humble opinion benefit from 'improvement':
1) Edit slab edge materials I don't know of a building that doesn't have a hole cut in a slab somewhere - usually for stairs - yet the material inside the cut remains as the exterior edge, for example if the exterior edge is brick - this wishlist item is so incredibly basic it was emphatically communicated back when I was using 4.1, like having a group command for drafting...
2) Trim slabs to roof - when doing an overhanging roof against the edge of a slab, sections could actually render with clean lines allowing detailing & prevent slabs from 'piercing' roofs - again very basic operation asked for in the early days (doh!)
3) Stairs that meet codes & have some precedent in the real world - honestly don't know how one could even walk up some of what stairmaker produces, especially winders... Simple stairs that don't need 45 parameters set up would be helpful...
4) Windows with a shallow arch window header & concrete/stone sills as are found in so many residences around the world - workaround for sills is 0" mortar but clumsy.
5) Logical default pen weights that have some comprehensive rationale and are available for every tool easily - we do produce drawings after all & archicad has great graphic potential that has been crippled by illogical, limited & obfuscated setup especially with library parts. There are only 3 pen weights in the first 10 pens & all library parts.
I used to set up pens 1-10 as black from 0mm to 2.0mm weighting which offered WYSIWYG onscreen, numeric correllation to weight & scalability for small page output but the inefficiency of having to adjust every library part's penweights wore me out. Global resetting & referencing might assist yet every library upgrade or replacement might face similar issues.
That being said v9 did make some progress with the remaining pen allocations, whic show some sense of graphical order beyond what I assume is the modulo 8 pen plotter & autocad legacy.
So really the most basic construction tools still have serious limitations that are longstanding & leave me scratching my head at many of the 'high end' archicad features - when I can't even easily put together a basic building model or adjust pen weights 'on the fly'...
And we're almost at version 10 ?
