All About View: Your Lumion View Journey begins here

1.1: Lumion View Is

• Directly used from within your CAD software. 
• Highly focused for fast internal or client facing renders.
• Release so far for SketchUp 2025.0 +.  Revit 2022 +.

 

1.2: What Can Lumion View do

Help with the collaboration, sharing and refinement of the design process of your project.

• Knowledge Base: All About View: When should you use Lumion View?

 

 

1.3: Lumion View Boundaries - What it does do and some of the what it does not do:

• Knowledge Base:  All About View: When should you use Lumion View?

 

See this guide:

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

 

1. Install from your Lumion Account, or

2. Install via the CAD plugin resource:  SketchUp: Extension Warehouse, Revit: Autodesk Apps Store.

3. Start the Lumion View Editor.

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

 

There are two work areas:

• Lumion View Toolbar.
• Lumion View Editor window.

The Lumion View Toolbar (editing in SketchUp):

• To Start and Stop the Lumion View Editor window.
• For setting Material properties or adding and editing Lights.

The Lumion View Editor Window:

• Set the look and feel of the Scene using features:
  • Environment.
  • Styles.
  • Render.
• Manage the Editor and your access.

 

   

The Editor window:

• Real time view of your CAD model with Ray Trace rendering (where available).
• You control the Environment and Conceptual Style.
• Render as a high quality Ray Traced image.
• Water materials are auto-converted to a Lumion Water, great for Ray Trace rendering.
• Glass materials are auto-converted to Lumion glass with transparency/opaqueness levels and real reflections of the environment.

Access tools from the window bar in the Editor window:

• Knowledge Base:  Working in the Lumion View Editor

 

5.1: Edit the Environment settings:  Sun, Sky and Background

• Set the Sun Height and Heading and Sun Brightness.
• Use a solid background for a difference in style than a sky.

For further:

• Knowledge Base:  All About View: Working in the Lumion View Editor

• Knowledge Base:  All About View: Working in the Lumion View Editor: Environment: Sun, Sky and Background

5.2: Set the Visual Style

How do you want to communicate the feeling for your design to the client?  Set one of two overall Styles:

 

Realistic: 

 

Conceptual:

 

Include Edges as part of your style choices:

For further:

• Knowledge Base: All About View: Working in the Lumion View Editor

• Knowledge Base:  Working in the Lumion Live editor - Styles

 

5.3: Set your Output render options and Render

• Real-time view and update of your CAD model with Ray Trace rendering (Windows edition).
• Mac edition currently supports Rasterization for screen and final rendering.
• Options for Resolution, Aspect Ratio and Output for copying to Clipboard, opening saved file, upload to Lumion Cloud.

Make final output for your client as: 

Realistic:  

Conceptual:

 

Conceptual With Edges:

For further:

• Knowledge Base:  All About View: Working in the Lumion View Editor

• Knowledge Base:  All About Lumion View: Working in the Lumion View Editor: Output

 

Account and Feedback:

 

Manage the Window:

       

• Minimize, maximize, close(Stops Lumion View)

For further:

• Knowledge Base: All About View: Working in the Lumion View Editor

 

7.1: For SketchUp

• Start and Stop the Lumion View window.
• Set Light Properties.
• Set Material Properties.
• Lights and Materials are in development for Lumion View for Revit (early release 25.4.x)
  • Does support Revit Materials and Revit Lights, just not the full Editors for enhanced rendering and compliance with LiveSync for sync to Lumion Pro.

 

7.2: For Revit

Lumion View for Revit 25.4.2 and newer supports Revit Light Objects and Revit Materials directly.

There is no View Toolbar buttons and Editors for Lights and Materials.

 

7.3: Start/Display the Lumion View window with the model and Stop/Close the window

• Start/Stop the Lumion View window as you need.
• As a flexible window, size and position where you need, full screen size, including on a dual monitor.

 

7.4: Use the Lights Editor to add Light Sources for Day and Night ambience

(SketchUp editions)

• The four main types of artificial light are supported.
• Set the properties for a light type as you add them or later on change the properties.
• These are special Lumion View Objects/components added into the SketchUp model.

See further:

• Knowledge Base:  All About View: Lumion View Toolbar: Using the Lights Editor
  
  
• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View Toolbar for SketchUp (Win): Using the Lights Editor
• Knowledge Base:  Lumion View Toolbar for SketchUp (Mac): Using the Lights Editor

 

7.5: Use the Materials Editor to affect the look of your model

(SketchUp editions)

• Supports three core PBR (Physically Based Rendering) material Types.
• The interface provides for additional properties. 
• Otherwise View uses the properties of a Material from SketchUp.

 

Share your best Practice and workflows:

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

(please make sure to include the Prefix for Lumion View)

 

To showcase your designs and Lumion View renders:

• Lumion Community: Showcase your Lumion renderings & movies

(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