All About View: Getting Started with Lumion View

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

This article covers editions for:

• Lumion View for SketchUp: edition for Windows, edition for Mac (Screenshots of the UI's might differ in some places).
• Lumion View for Revit (Windows).

 

1. Product Releases:

1.1:  Windows version: April 30, 2025 Commercial Release is available: 

Lumion View is now fully available as a commercial product and the Early Access release is closed.

An update to Lumion View for SketchUp 2025 has also been officially released!

• Knowledge Base: Lumion View 25.2 Release Notes

 

 

1.3:  Mac version: September 12, 2025: Initial Access and Commercial Release

Lumion View for SketchUp edition for Mac released 4 September, 2025.

This version and release is available from your Lumion Account or the SketchUp Extension Warehouse. 

 

1.4: Revit (Win) edition:  September 8, 2025:  Early Access Release

Lumion View for Revit edition for windows early released candidate 8 September, 2025.

This version and release is available from the Autodesk Apps Store.  It will also be provided later via your Lumion Account. 

 

2. Overview of Lumion View: Capability:

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

Provide Ray Trace (Win edition) real time rendering output as either:

 

Conceptual Styles (four):

 

Photo Realistic Images:

 

3. 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: All About View: When should you use Lumion View?

 

4. How do You get Started?

4.1: Installation Steps for Lumion View for SketchUp

Install via your Lumion Account or via SketchUp Extension Manager:

For details on access and installation:

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

Product details:

Lumion View for SketchUp (Win):

• Knowledge Base:  How do you get access to Lumion View for SketchUp (Win)?
• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View for SketchUp (Win): Installation guide

Lumion View for SketchUp (Mac):

• Knowledge Base:  How do you get Access and Install Lumion View for SketchUp (Mac)?

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4.2: Installation Steps for Lumion View for Revit

Install via the Autodesk Apps Store (from 8 September 2025).

Your Lumion Account (after early release week 15 to 21 September 2025):

Availability from Lumion Account from: 

 

For details on access and installation:

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

Product details:

Lumion View for Revit (Win):

• Knowledge Base: How do you get Access and Install Lumion View for Revit (Win)?

 

 

5. Using Lumion View (example SketchUp):

 

You have the Lumion Plugin for SketchUp Installed:

• Windows edition: includes LiveSync for SketchUp and Lumion View for SketchUp. 
• Mac edition: Lumion View for SketchUp.

 

Lumion View has two work areas:

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

5.1: Use the Lumion View Toolbar

• Start and Stop the Lumion View Editor window (see section 5.2, below).
• Model Edits:  Lights, Materials:

 

5.2: Use the Lumion View Editor

   

The window to your quality renders.

• Real-time view and update of your SketchUp or Revit model with Ray Trace rendering for Windows edition.  Mac edition currently only supports Rasterization rendering.

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

 

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

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

 

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