Theese are the problems i found with the new modeling toolset:
1.When holding any sort of snapping it switches to the normal maya icons and automatically turns off the toolkit also since snapping doesn't work with the toolkit symmetry also won't work.
2.When the toolkit sometimes is doing an undo to an operation u need to undo twice because sometimes it needs to do that to switch from a face mode for example to a different mode.
3.When using symmetry and press f to frame on the side i have selected it frames both the selected components and the symmetry ones and i like to frame on the part i'm working on.
4.Sometimes when using a custom pivot it doesn't work correctly in symmetry and also local axis doesn't work correctly in simmetry sometimes.
In conclusion the modeling toolkit feels forced into maya and it only works in component mode and for this to be usable it should always be on when i turn it on and always work and it should work with every tool whether it be snapping, working with live objects and so on.

How many times have you typed '.454' three times in a row? Or clicked the preset dropdown and selected the desired preset, even though you wish to use the same exact preset every time you create a new node? What if you want your default ramp node to be "Black to White" instead of "Blue Green Red"? Or assign the same initial preset to every material or ncloth node you create?

Presets are great, but setting a default preset for each node would give the user more control and save several precious clicks for every node created. Naturally there should also be the option to Reset Preset Default in case the user wants to revert to the system default.

I often find that construction history breaks in ways that seem un-reasonable meaning that I can't rely on it too much. 'Poly Unite' is a common example of this. For example:

>make two poly spheres

>use PolyUnite on both spheres

>Click on the resulting mesh and look its inputs

>Increase the number of subdivisions

When I do this, the newly created polygons don't have a material so I have to assign one. Worse still, when doing this kind of thing, the mesh will often break so that faces dissapear etc.

Also, Maya often blocks the ability to change defomation order when it shouldn't. I can understand that changing the order of a PolyUnite would be problematic if nodes down stream rely on vertex ID but often that isn't the case (for instance if only Nonlinear deformers are used). Maya should check if nodes down stream use vertex ID and if so, give a warning, rather than blocking the change of deformation order).

In other words, it feels like certain things have been dis-allowed in a heavy handed way as a way of fixing crashes and bugs but maybe it is time to go through with a fine combe and add robustness to one of the most important aspects of Maya.

For creating smooth mesh preview models it would be extremely helpful if the Maya default bevel tool could create a perfectly flat 2 segment bevel like 3ds max. I have tried all the settings in Maya and turning off autofit almost works, but it is not perfectly flat and the degree of flatness varies based on the shape of the geometry. Please see attached screenshot, at one point there was an after market tool which provided this functionality in Maya, but the tool was buggy and crashed Maya a lot and is no longer supported. I have pasted a link below. Specifically it is the solid chamfer functionality I want in Maya which is effectively a flat 2 segment bevel.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bpt/?source=dlp