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• Lumion View:- An Overview.
  • Some Examples of the output.
• When should You use Lumion View?
• When Should You use Lumion View with Lumion Pro?
• How does Lumion View fit in with LiveSync (LiveSync for SketchUp)?
• When can you use both?
• Share your best Practice and workflows with your Peers.

Lumion View:- An Overview

For the context here, lets briefly explain what Lumion View does.

• Provide Ray Trace real time rendering output as either Ray Trace photo-realistic or Conceptual Styles.
• Highly focused to give you quality renders to your clients (internal or external).

Lumion View is  a plugin to CAD software such as SketchUp that gives you the ability to render high quality 3D images of your design model.

It does this using Ray Trace rendering as the fundamental and only render option. It aims to provide as close to real-world/photo-realistic rendering as possible based on Ray Tracing technology and using PBR (Physically Based Rendering) Textures.

You also have options of rendering as a Style (one of four concept Styles) as a way to communicate the design in its early or later stages of concept.

Both render options can go hand in hand as part of your portfolio of the design for your client.

Current rendering output is for image only (but may not be limited to that).

Some Examples of the output:

Ray Trace real-world/photo-realistic:

Concept:

When should You use Lumion View?

The focus is to provide a product (software tool) for all Architectural Designers.  Our aims are for it to:

• Help to collaborate, share and refine the design of your model.
  
  
• The focus of Lumion View is to assist in the iterative design-review-design process by providing easy and fast 3D renderings of your model.

The development approach has been on:

• Simple and very easy to use.
• Very focused in what it can do, won't do and should do.
• The rendering (screen and/or file) can be used for your internal or external clients.
• Accessible to the widest range of Designers as is possible (for the technology).
• Adaptable to various CAD software. (this first Preview release though is for SketchUp 2025).
• Affordability.

Unrestricted, of course:

Whilst the prime focus of Lumion View is clear, we don't see that as a restriction.  Make use. And if you find some interesting new ways to use it, please connect with us:

- for approaches to Best Practice for your design workflows:

• Lumion Community: Discuss all things Lumion with other users (please use the Prefix(tag) Lumion View)

- for Technical Support for any issues and questions please use this channel:

• Knowledge Base:  Contact Lumion Technical Support for Lumion View
  
  

When Should You use Lumion View with Lumion Pro?

How does Lumion View fit in with LiveSync (LiveSync for SketchUp)?

Use or have used our advanced real-time importing technology known as LiveSync (yes the first and only real one)?  

> Lumion View is now an additional plugin component of LiveSync.

All that's needed will be to download it from the resource location for your CAD.  For example: for SketchUp, the Extension Warehouse.  

During Early Access, the plugin is available via your Lumion Account.  See this guide: 

• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View: Installation guide: SketchUp

See also:

• Knowledge Base:  Model import guidelines for SketchUp
• Knowledge Base:  Download Lumion LiveSync for SketchUp 

You can use Lumion View for any in-SketchUp renders of your design.

When you are ready to, or at any time, you can also use LiveSync to transfer the model over to Lumion Pro for your more advanced visualization requirements.

The two work seamlessly together, but play different roles in terms of visualization requirements for the design to your clients.

When can you use both?

For the Preview Release, you have access to both LiveSync and Lumion View together.

A later release phase is planned with possible options to use either:

• LiveSync and View together
• LiveSync by itself.
• View by itself.

Share your best Practice and workflows with your Peers:

We invite you to discuss your use of Lumion View for approaches to Best Practice for your design workflows:

• Lumion Community: Discuss all things Lumion with other users

To showcase your designs and Lumion View renders:

• Lumion Community: Showcase your Lumion renderings & movies
  
  

Lumion Community Thread Prefix:

Please make sure to include the Prefix for Lumion View:

Technical Support for any issues and questions please use this channel:

• Knowledge Base:  Contact Lumion Technical Support for Lumion View

Where to from here?

• Knowledge Base:  Getting Started with Lumion View: an Introduction
• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View: Your Journey begins here

Getting Started:

• Knowledge Base:  How do you get access to Lumion View?