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You probably don't really need one model per floor if this is one building. Revit is designed to model the entire building in a single file (per discipline typically). In fact it's quite inefficient to model floor by floor by comparison. Even when a floor design is used on more than one floor it gets quite obtuse to treat the same floor model as unique on a different floor when subtle differences creep in, which happens in every project I've ever encountered.
It is however quite common to model site and building separately, I do it for a number of reasons but primarily for real world versus project world (shared coordinates/survey relationships with site).
That written, any link will bring along the levels and grids with the 3D building elements. We generally use Filters to isolate them and turn them off with V/G and View Templates. I control them by naming the levels and grids uniquely so a filter can "see" them as unique/different from those in the hosting model. If I control all the models I'll use a discipline prefix. If I don't I use a name that is just different from the names used in the other models.
Some people rely on specific worksets to turn them off but I find that's too prone to user error, not assigning all the grids or levels to the correct workset. Their type names aren't nearly as likely to change or fail to work with Filters. If they do then it's really easy to fix and completely up to me, no waiting for people to fix their models.
Steve Stafford
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