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• 1. Overview of Lumion View:
• 2. A Mention of its Scope
• 3. How do You get Started?
• 4. Using Lumion View.

1. Overview of Lumion View:

1.1: Early Access Release

Lumion View has an initial Early Access release as part of the Lumion LiveSync for SketchUp 2025.0 release.

Release Date: 25th of March, 2025

The Early Access version is a release for SketchUp 2025 and newer.

Access is via your Lumion Account by downloading the .RBZ file using the 'Download Product Lumion View' button.

1.2: Capability

Highly focused to give you quality renders to your clients (internal or external).

Provide Ray Trace real time rendering output as either:

Conceptual Styles (four):

Photo Realistic Images:

Take a look at some further details on Lumion View here:

• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View: Your Journey begins here

2. What is the Scope of Lumion View:

• Help to collaborate, share and refine the design.
  
  
• 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.

For further on the scope:

• Knowledge Base:  When should you use Lumion View?

3. How do You get Started?

Install via SketchUp Extension Manager:

For details on access and installation:

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

4. Using Lumion View:

Once you have LiveSync and Lumion View Installed:

There are two work areas:

1. Lumion View Toolbar.
2. Lumion View Editor window.
   
   

4.1: Use the Lumion View Toolbar

• Start and Stop the Lumion View Editor window (see below).
• Model Edits:  Lights, Materials:

Create and Set Light Properties (a Light must be selected to edit):	Edit Material Properties (the active SketchUp Material will be the one edited):

4.2: Use the Lumion View Editor

The window to your quality renders.

• Real-time view and update of your SketchUp model with Ray Trace rendering.

• Set the look and feel of the Scene:  Environment, Styles. 
• Render.

Continue your exploration and understanding of Lumion View with this article:

• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View: Your View Journey begins here

We hope you enjoy using Lumion View to support your design workflows and make easy, fast, high quality renders.