Render the story of your design
Lumion is visualization software made for architects.
No matter your experience with rendering, Lumion helps you create a story about your design that will captivate and inspire. Iterate and share your vision exactly as you imagine it — full of beauty, atmosphere and emotion.
A building doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The setting, its environment, the subtle details — they all matter to bring your design to life. To create atmosphere. To give spaces a sense of scale and possibility.
With Lumion, you can create a world of context and capture the details of life that show the full potential of your design.
Simply tap into your imagination and Lumion helps you express your vision for the project. You can reveal the rough textures of your building materials or show the elegance of glass facades. Make soft winds blow through the trees or create a sunset and illuminate your interiors. Render the serene atmosphere of a lazy Sunday morning or the buzz of a Saturday night in the city.
Whatever the emotion you want to convey, you can render it with ease.
Add Lumion to your design workflows
With a Lumion license, there’s no limit to what you can imagine, render and achieve.
Bring your exteriors, interiors and landscapes to life, and enjoy every step of the journey along the way.
Lumion is free for students
If you’re a full-time student at a university or accredited institution, you can download the free,
unrestricted Lumion Student! Faculty licenses are also available.
What is Lumion?
Lumion is architectural rendering software that makes it easy to convey how your projects will translate into real-life experiences and emotions.
Features
With intuitive tools, features and a large Lumion content library, there is no limit to how you can show your exterior, interior, landscape or urban designs.
Latest version
Lumion 12 is available now, with new additions and an improved experience to help you tell a story about your design that will move and inspire.
Already using an earlier version of Lumion?
Atmospheric spotlights. Realism-inducing decals. A scene-building experience that’s faster than ever. With new features introduced every year, Lumion 12 builds on more than a decade of development specifically for architects.
Render the life in your design
There is something about life you just can’t feel in CAD.
Maybe it’s the unpredictability. The inherent chaos.
Or simply the atmosphere. Whatever it is, one thing is for certain — life is full of feeling. And it’s difficult to get a feeling from a CAD model.
With Lumion, you can render the beauty of life into your work.
You can render the serenity of a building in the wild.
Render a New York minute with all of its movement and hustle.
Render lazy Sunday mornings, render rainy afternoons.
Render the pale light of winter or the heavy heat of summer. Render a change of your mind, render at every scale. Render anything you can dream, and render everything with ease.
Express yourself with Lumion
Architects are artists at heart.
Many have unique ideas about their designs, but they need a way to express these ideas easily.
Lumion removes the barriers to free-flowing expression,
letting you tap into your artistic side with tools and features to communicate a rich, unique story about the project.
You’ll be empowered to clarify your intent for the design and creatively express yourself in your renders, and with Lumion’s fast rendering speeds and workflow simplicity, there is a direct path from your imagination, through the 3D model, and into the render itself.
Take a closer look at how Lumion helps you to better express yourself in your renders, removing some of the mystery and difficulty in creating captivating results.
Inspire joy
Create atmosphere
Be unique
Get inspired with Lumion
Exteriors, interiors, landscapes and more. From single residential to large-scale urban plans. With Lumion, you can communicate all the real-life possibilities of your design ideas as beautiful images, videos and 360 panoramas.
How Lumion energizes the design process
Communicate design ideas with emotion. Create a shared visual experience. Render your designs in a unique time and place. At any phase of the design process, Lumion makes it intuitive and simple to create beautiful results full of atmosphere and life.
We started using Lumion as a communication tool to convey our designs, and the more we were using it, the more we realized it’s not about just rendering anymore. We can use this in our design process.
I feel proud that I can bring 2D spaces to life and craft visuals that inspire people to take action, to protect or conserve or enhance nature in public spaces.
It’s a very important part of trying to understand what that visual image is trying to communicate. Because the building doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The light shines on it, the clouds come, the rain comes, weather changes, the seasons change.
When they see a fly-through video with every detail, all the lighting, all the materials — it really gives them a realistic view of what their project could be. And I think that is what brings a sparkle to their eye.
Lumion is fully compatible with almost every 3D and CAD program
The idea behind Lumion is widespread compatibility to ensure that simple and fast architectural visualization is available to every architect and designer, no matter the 3D or CAD modeling software they use. Everything is designed to save you time.
With LiveSync, Lumion’s real-time rendering feature, you can create a live connection between Lumion and the major CAD programs. Even if LiveSync isn’t available for your CAD software, you should still be able to enjoy seamless import, model reimport and compatibility.
Lumion is fully compatible with and has LiveSync plug-ins for
Lumion is fully compatible with many other 3D modeling programs, such as
And many others
* Model designs on this page and the showcase gallery by VIS3DARQ, Angular Lab (Charles Infante) and Emely Córdova, Paul Sovereign, Bridge Con, Adam Ingram (Ark Visuals), Obra Visuals, Centric Bamboo and Gorilla Design, Beehive & King Crab, Angello Marques Arquitetura e Design and Marco Caccini.