In a section or elevation, click Architecture tab › Datum panel › Level (LL). Click twice to draw the level line, then click its elevation and type the height. With Make Plan View on, each new level gets a floor plan and ceiling plan.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to add levels, each with its own floor plan.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Open a section or elevation
Levels can only be added in a section or elevation view. Open one, such as an exterior elevation under Elevations in the Project Browser (Autodesk Help: About Levels).
Step 2: Start the Level tool
Click Architecture tab › Datum panel › Level (LL), or the same tool on the Structure tab (Autodesk Help: Add Levels).
Step 3: Choose which plans it makes
On the Modify | Place Level tab, Make Plan View is on by default, so each level gets a floor plan and a reflected ceiling plan. Click Plan View Types to pick which plans, or clear Make Plan View for a reference level such as a sill height.
Step 4: Draw the level line
Click to start the line, move the cursor sideways and click to end it. Ends that line up with other levels snap and lock to them, and a temporary dimension shows the distance to the level you're aligned with.
Step 5: Set the exact height
Click the elevation value at the level head and type the height, or set Elevation in the Properties palette. You can also click the dimension to a neighboring level and type the floor-to-floor height (Autodesk Help: Move Levels).
Step 6: Name the level
Click the level's name and type a new one. Revit asks whether to rename the plan views with the same name; click Yes so the plans follow.
Step 7: Add plans for levels that have none
Levels made by copying or arraying come in without plans. Click View tab › Create panel › Plan Views › Floor Plan, select those levels in New Plan and click OK (Autodesk Help: Create a Plan View).
What to watch for
Deleting a level deletes what's on it. Revit removes the level's views and the elements hosted on it, such as doors, furniture and rooms. Read the warning list first, and move anything you want to keep to another level.
Reference levels don't make plans. A level drawn with Make Plan View cleared has no plan view, but walls and other level-based elements can still use it as a base or top constraint.
Heights count from a base point. The level type's Elevation Base sets whether elevations are measured from the Project Base Point or the Survey Point, so check it before you match a consultant's levels.
A level can have more than one plan. To make a second floor plan for a level, clear Do not duplicate existing views in New Plan. Revit names it like Level 1(1), so rename it for its use, and give it a view template.
Scope boxes limit where levels show. Assign a level to a scope box and it shows only in views that cut the box. See how to use scope boxes.
Levels get added a different way on every job. One person copies levels, another uses the Level tool, and the model ends up with levels that have no plans, plans named Level 5(1), and a parapet level with a floor plan nobody needs. Sorting it out means checking every level against the Project Browser. Adding a run of levels at one floor-to-floor height, each with its plan, is the repetitive part an AI agent for Revit can take on, with you approving each change.
Or, just ask Mira to do it.
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Add Levels 5 to 8 above Level 4 at 14'-0" floor to floor, each with a floor plan.
Mira lists the existing levels first, so nothing new lands on a level already there, such as the roof, and asks which plan type and view template the new floor plans use. Creating the levels needs a small tool Mira writes, which asks Allow first, and Mira reads each elevation back.
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