Revit won't dimension

[Anonymous]

Revit is not recognizing any walls or cabinets, etc, as elements so that I can add dimensions to my plans. I try to toggle through elements, but Revit just gives me the error buzz. I've tried work arounds such as adding reference planes, but Revit doesn't recognize these either, even outside of the building away from all other items. 

At one point, I got it to dimension to a wall, but when I tried to toggle through the location point, the dimension leader moved but the tick did not and the dimension did not change to the dimension of new leader location.  

[barthbradley]

What view are you in? What workplane is active? 

[Anonymous]

I wasn't able to dimension in any view. I could pick points, but not element boundaries. 

I was able to get the dimensions to work by doing aligned dimensions instead of linear. Everything should be orthogonal, but it took at least an hour to figure out that solution. So frustrating. 

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

I was playing around with linear dimension. You are right, it won't latch on to the wall centerline. However it will pickup the family reference plane or end of the line. Usually i would never use this function because align dimension pretty much take care of 90% of the linear dimension. I wonder if Autodesk would replace this with something useful instead of crippling the functionality.

[barthbradley]

That's not how linear dimensions work.  

Linear Dimensions are to endpoints of elements or the intersection of references (for example, the join of 2 walls).

 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

[Corsten.Au · Accepted solution]

use " Aligned" Dimension..