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Discover Lumion View
Explore, refine, visualize—right inside your modeling tool. Now available for SketchUp.
Fast. Fluid. Always on.
Your new design companion
Lightweight and lightning-fast, Lumion View is the perfect companion for your SketchUp 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 download from the SketchUp Extension Warehouse and free to try for 14 days.
Visualize in real time, inside your SketchUp environment
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.
Start your free trial
Sign up for your 14-day Lumion View trial here. We'll email you simple instructions to get started.
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.
Get Lumion View today
Lumion View is available as a standalone subscription or included with the Lumion Studio plan.
With Lumion Studio, you get Lumion Pro as a floating license and Lumion View as a named-user license—giving your team flexibility to design and visualize at every stage.
For a limited time, you can invite up to 10 team members to use Lumion View for free per Lumion Studio seat—now until October 31, 2025.
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, simply import it into Lumion Pro 2025—your lights and material settings will transfer automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off.
From there, take full creative control over context, realism, atmosphere, and output.
From landscapes and weather to entourage and advanced effects—shape every detail and tell a more immersive, impactful design story.
Lumion View is compatible with Lumion Pro 2025.0 for a seamless workflow.
Not using SketchUp?
Lumion View is coming to more CAD and BIM tools soon. Join the waitlist to be the first to know when new integrations launch.
All about Lumion View
Lumion View is now available on the SketchUp Extension Warehouse and free to try for 14 days.
You can get Lumion View as a standalone subscription or as part of the Lumion Studio plan.
If you're already using Lumion Studio, simply follow these steps to access Lumion View:
Log into your Lumion Account to download Lumion View. Check this short guide to get started.
Invite your team to Lumion View. You can add and assign up to 10 users for every Lumion Studio seat you have—free until Oct 31st 2025. See how.
If you're not using SketchUp, no worries! Join the waitlist and you'll be the first to know when it becomes available to your CAD or BIM software.
Lumion View is currently available for SketchUp, with support for additional software following soon. 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.
You can use them together for a more connected workflow from the start of a project to the finished design. Get them both with a Lumion Studio plan.
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 plugin 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 works seamlessly with Lumion Pro 2025 for a smooth, connected workflow.
Simply import your SketchUp model into Lumion Pro, and your lights and material settings will transfer automatically—so you can keep designing without any rework.
With a valid Lumion Pro Student license you also get free access to Lumion View. Learn more about the free student license here.
