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Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> Linked File, how can I dimension it?
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I am working on a townhouse project and created each unit as a linked revit file. Now that I have put it all together and toggled the visibility setting just the way I need it I can't get my dimensions to snap to the walls in linked files properly. I only can snap to the core center line of the linked revit file, but I need to be able to snap to core faces of walls in linked elements. How do I do that?
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On the Options Bar, for Prefer, select Faces of Core.
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Nope, that does not work with linked files. I tried again both in RVT2009 and RVT2010. Could it be that this is a bug?
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When you select the wall, use the tab key to cycle through the faces until you get to the one that you want to dimension to.
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It's so obvious, isn't it? I should have figured it out myself  Thanks.
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"Nope, that does not work with linked files." markuspirker: in the example I posted before, I used a linked Revit file and didn´t have any problems even without the need of selecting walls with the tab key....
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I could also select the faces with the linked file with faces checked.
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I Know this post is over a year old but I had the same proble. The solutions listsed above didn't work for me. I eventually found the sloution being the settings in the linked revit file. I changed the cut and view planes then could dimension no problem. Nathan
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