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Explore, refine, visualize—right inside your modeling tool. Now available for SketchUp.
Fast. Fluid. Always on.
Lumion View for SketchUp
Your new design companion
Lightweight and lightning-fast, Lumion View is the perfect companion for your modeling workflow. Designed to keep up with your creativity, Lumion View lets you explore, refine, and share early-stage ideas effortlessly—without breaking your flow.
With instant visual feedback and intuitive tools, you can focus on what matters most—your design.
Now available for free in Early Access for all Lumion Pro subscribers, Lumion View is ready to use directly inside SketchUp today.
Visualize in real time, inside your SketchUp environment
Join the waitlist
Lumion View is now available for free in Early Access to all Lumion Pro subscribers.
Be the first to know when it launches for the wider market—join the waitlist and get ready to bring it into your design workflow.
Design freely. Visualize instantly.
Early-stage development demands speed, flexibility, and real-time feedback. You need a tool that lets you explore ideas fluidly—without slowing you down.
Visualize as you design. Integrated directly into your CAD software, Lumion View brings visualization earlier into the design workflow—making it a natural, fully integrated part of your creative process.
Explore, test, and refine ideas in real time with speed and clarity, so you can make faster, better informed design decisions.
Create diagrams and conceptual visualizations at a moment’s notice—perfect for communicating initial ideas, testing massing studies, or shaping spatial layouts before the details come into focus.
Quickly produce up to 4K renders whenever you need to share your design progress with clients or your team.
Don't miss our launch special
As a Lumion Pro subscriber, you automatically get free access to Lumion View.
And there’s more: for every Lumion Pro seat, you can invite up to 10 team members to use Lumion View—at no extra cost—until October 31, 2025.
It’s the perfect moment to get your team working with real-time visualization—right from the first sketch.
Don’t miss it—start using Lumion View today.
Dial in the light
See how your design interacts with natural light at different times of day to refine your design with clarity and precision. Quickly add and adjust artificial lighting with point, spot, area, and line lights.
Enhance materials
Test SketchUp's PBR materials in a more realistic view.
Explore material settings for glass and water.
Style your design
Explore designs quickly with easy-to-create diagrams, realistic views, or preset styles. Choose from clay, wood, styrofoam, or glossy finishes, and adjust the background color to keep the focus on your concept.
Explore more possibilities
Experiment at every scale—test everything from material properties to the sun itself, all within your CAD software. Get immediate insights, refine your vision, and produce quick renders to share with your team and clients.
Take your designs further
When your model is ready, switch over to Lumion Pro for full creative control over context, realism, atmosphere, and output.
From landscape and weather to entourage and materials, from dynamic lighting to animations and advanced effects—shape every detail and tell a more immersive, impactful design story.
Lumion View will be compatible with Lumion Pro 2025.0—coming soon.
Don't miss our launch special
All Lumion Pro subscribers can start using Lumion View today!
Invite up to 10 users to Lumion View for every Lumion Pro seat you have—free until Oct 31st 2025. See how.
Download Lumion View from your Lumion Account or get Lumion Pro today.
Frequent questions
Lumion View for SketchUp is now available in Early Access and free to all Lumion Pro subscribers.
If you're already using Lumion Pro, simply follow these steps:
Log into your Lumion Account to download Lumion View Early Access for SketchUp. Check this short guide to get started.
Invite your team. You can add and assign up to 10 users for Lumion View for every Lumion Pro seat you have on your Lumion Pro subscription. See how.
If you're not using Lumion Pro or SketchUp, no worries! Join the waitlist and you'll be the first to know when it becomes broadly available to the market.
Lumion View is currently available for SketchUp, with support for additional software following soon. Make sure to sign up for the waitlist and be the first to know when Lumion View becomes available for your modeling software.
Lumion View is a lightweight, low-impact tool for Windows. It requires a ray tracing-capable graphics card and 300MB of free disk space. Click here to see the complete system requirements for Lumion View.
Lumion View is a lightweight, real-time design tool perfect for early-stage visualization directly inside your modeling software.
Lumion Pro offers advanced rendering capabilities with full creative control over context, realism, effects, and final output.
Lumion View is a real-time visualization tool directly integrated into your modeling software, allowing you to explore and refine ideas with intuitive controls. Lumion View is now available for SketchUp, with more integrations coming soon.
Lumion LiveSync is a free plug-in that allows you to create a real-time connection between your CAD software and Lumion Pro so that you can model and visualize simultaneously or easily re-import your model. This means that when you make changes to your model, they'll be instantly reflected in Lumion Pro. Lumion LiveSync is available for SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, and more.
Yes you can!
Lumion View provides a fast, intuitive way to explore and refine your design right from the start, giving you instant visual feedback as you model in SketchUp.
When you're ready to add detail, build full environments, or create immersive animations, Lumion Pro has everything you need to bring your project to life.
Lumion View will be compatible with the upcoming version of Lumion—Lumion 2025—for a smooth, connected workflow.
While in Early Access, Lumion View is not yet available for students. You'll be able to access Lumion View for free, when it becomes available to the market, as long as you have a Lumion Student license. You can request Lumion Student here.