Want a realistic preview of your SketchUp model as you design?
Lumion View is a lightweight, always-on visualization tool built directly into SketchUp. Designed specifically for the dynamic early design workflow, it’s seamlessly integrated into your modeling software, so you can design and visualize in real time.
Currently available for SketchUp and Revit, with further CAD integrations to follow—join the waitlist.
Early-stage explorations
Ideally suited to conceptual design, Lumion View for SketchUp allows you to explore and shape initial design ideas faster by providing instant visual feedback.
By bringing visualization earlier into the process, Lumion View helps you stay in your flow and design with clarity—its intuitive UI ensuring you stay focused on the creative process.
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Diagrams made easy
Diagrams and conceptual visualizations are important in the early stages of design. You might need to communicate initial ideas to clients or team members, test massing studies, or shape spatial layouts. Lumion View makes this possible—right inside SketchUp—with the help of one-click conceptual styles.
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Realistic lighting
With Lumion View, you can quickly see how your design interacts with both natural and artificial light. Test the sun’s impact at different times of day, or position point, spot, area, and line lights in your SketchUp model and tweak accordingly.
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Enhanced materials
Easily test and enhance SketchUp’s PBR material maps in Lumion View to see exactly how they'll look in the real world. Modify the emissive strength, reflectivity, thickness, volumetric settings, or wave scale for your water and glass materials directly in the Lumion View panel. Then view them in place in a highly realistic ray-traced setting.
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Visual styles
Lumion View offers a range of preset visual styles, which can be useful to assess the lighting conditions, volumetrics, or spatial quality of a space. Choose between realistic or conceptual—clay, wood, styrofoam, or glossy—and adjust the background to a color of your choice. This can help keep viewers’ focus on the concept itself, rather than being distracted by details. You can also enable edges here if you want to make your chosen style more sketch-like.
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Quick renders
When you’re happy with your finished result, you can quickly generate 4K renders—whenever you need them. Simply render, save, and share with your team or clients for swift reviews.
You can also upload straight to Lumion Cloud for quick sharing, feedback, and approvals.
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Advanced features & effects in Lumion Pro
When your model is ready, seamlessly transition to Lumion Pro for greater control over realism, entourage, atmosphere, and output. Sculpt the terrain, change the weather, choose from thousands of library items, and create compelling animations. Tell your design story with immersive, photorealistic detail.
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Discover more
Lumion View is available from the SketchUp Extension Warehouse for both Windows and Mac. Find out when it’s available for your preferred CAD or BIM software by joining the waitlist.
Try Lumion Pro for free for 14 days—no credit card required. Check out these tips and guides from Lumion to boost your visualization skills in no time.
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Why not also explore Lumion Cloud for streamlined visual collaboration? Comment and draw on renders, compare versions, and get to sign-off faster than ever. And the best part—it’s now free to start using.
