Let $\left| K \right|$ be the metric polyhedron of a simplicial complex $K$. In this paper, we characterize a simplicial subdivision ${{K}^{\prime }}$ of $K$ preserving the metric topology for $\left| K \right|$ as the one such that the set ${{K}^{\prime }}(0)$ of vertices of ${{K}^{\prime }}$ is discrete in $\left| K \right|$. We also prove that two such subdivisions of $K$ have such a common subdivision.

Let $F$ be a non-separable $\text{LF}$-space homeomorphic to the direct sum ${{\sum }_{n\in \text{N}}}\,{{\ell }_{2}}\left( {{\tau }_{n}} \right)$, where ${{\aleph }_{0}}<{{\tau }_{1}}<{{\tau }_{2}}<\cdot \cdot \cdot $. It is proved that every open subset $U$ of $F$ is homeomorphic to the product $\left| K \right|\,\times \,F$ for some locally finite-dimensional simplicial complex $K$ such that every vertex $v\,\in \,{{K}^{\left( 0 \right)}}$ has the star $\text{St}\left( v,\,K \right)$ with card $\text{St}{{\left( v,K \right)}^{\left( 0 \right)}}<\tau =\sup {{\tau }_{n}}$ (and card ${{K}^{\left( 0 \right)}}\le \tau $), and, conversely, if $K$ is such a simplicial complex, then the product $\left| K \right|\,\times \,F$ can be embedded in $F$ as an open set, where $\left| K \right|$ is the polyhedron of $K$ with the metric topology.