# Dimension string

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**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/dimension-string/34209 "2019-04-01T01:48:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/dimension-string/34209/4 "2019-04-01T08:35:33Z")

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Hi @pmyneni Welcome to the forum 😀

Totally possible 👍

I recommend having a look at this topic below, and similar ones throughout the forum (there are quite a few on dimensions from elements)

A hint would be to look at your list structures feeding the dimension creation node. 😉

> [@Dimension to wall finished face](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/dimension-to-wall-finished-face/23906):
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> Hi I’m trying to dimension to the finished face of 2 parallel walls. If I use the walls as the elements in ‘Dimension.ByElements’ it will do it to the centre line. I don’t want to extract curves and dimension to those as the dimension will not be hosted to the actual walls. I though i could get the face references of the walls and use those but I am getting an error: “Warning: One or more of the input types are not matching. Couldn’t find a version of ByElements that takes arguments of type (…

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