Create and manage levels

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Levels organize your model by story. They drive your floor plans, give walls something to attach to, and set the height you draw floors and ceilings at. Set them up early and the rest of the model follows.

Where levels come from

  • Published from Revit. Levels come across automatically with your geometry and rooms. There's nothing to set up.

  • Created in Motif. Add your own levels in any model, including the default model of a new project.

  • From a linked model. Levels inside a linked model belong to that model. You can see them, but you can't use them for floor plans. See Levels and linked models below.

💡 A Revit level comes across if it has rooms on it. If a level you expected is missing, check that it has rooms in Revit, or add it in Motif.

Create a level

  1. Open the model you want to work in.

  2. Add a level.

  3. Set its elevation.

  4. Give it a name, for example Level 2 or Roof.

Repeat for each story. It's easiest to work in a section or elevation view, where you can see the levels stacked up.

Edit a level

Select a level to change its name or elevation in the Properties panel. Anything attached to the level moves with it, so changing a floor-to-floor height updates the walls above it automatically.

Or ask the agent

The agent can create, rename, and adjust levels for you, which is handy when you're setting up a whole building at once. For example:

  • "Add five levels at 12 ft floor-to-floor, named Level 1 to Level 5, plus a Roof level."

  • "Change the floor-to-floor height of Level 3 to 14 ft."

How levels drive the model

Floor plans

Every level can have a floor plan, and you can create plans for several levels at once from the Views tool with Add Floor Plan. Those plans are live and update as the model changes. See Link to Create floor plans, sections, and 3D views for full details.

Walls

Attach the top of a wall to the level above, and the wall follows when that level moves. See 📄 Model walls, floors, and ceilingsfor full details.

Floors and ceilings

Floors and ceilings are placed per level, at the level you're drawing on.

Levels and linked models

When you link another model into yours, its levels come with it. They move with the linked model, and they won't appear in the Add Floor Plan list, because they don't belong to your model.

To make floor plans of a linked building, create matching levels in your own model. The quickest way is to ask the agent, for example "Create levels in this model to match the levels in the linked model."

âš  You'll see both sets of levels in your views, and you can't hide only the linked model's levels yet.

See 📄 Link another model into your modelfor full details.

Hide levels in a view

  1. Open the view and make sure nothing is selected.

  2. In the Properties panel, open Visibility overrides.

  3. Turn off Levels.

This hides all levels in that view only, including any from linked models.

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