Architectural Design Rendering
Bring your structures to life with the greatest ease, in the highest quality.
Made for architects
Architectural visualization is more than just communicating a finished design. It’s part of the creative process — and it can be surprisingly inspiring and rewarding.
Lumion empowers you to fully express the vision driving your architectural projects, from the early stages of design development to the final client presentation.
Easy to learn, satisfying to use, and quick to render, Lumion keeps you in your creative flow.
Lumion LiveSync
Simplify your workflow
Model and render at the same time, make changes on the fly, and drive faster design decisions.
Lumion is compatible with all major CAD or 3D modeling software and fits seamlessly into your workflow.
Lumion LiveSync lets you create a real-time connection with your CAD software, making it easy to quickly render images, videos, or 360 panoramas while you fine-tune your design.
A world of possibilities
Lumion is not a plug-in. It’s a complete architectural rendering solution. Shape entire landscapes, control the lighting and weather conditions, apply and customize materials, and add detail with thousands of objects, characters, and nature items. Discover some of the ways Lumion enables you to bring your architectural designs to life.
It's all about the light
No interior rendering is complete without lighting. It sets the mood, adds depth and dimension, and guides your perception of the space.
With the new ray tracing effect, you can make your interiors look even more realistic. To learn more about ray tracing and its limitations, please check our release notes.
Ray traced reflections
Weathering
Your materials, your way
Make your surfaces feel exactly as you envisioned them by importing, customizing, and creating any texture you can think of.
Lumion 2023’s easy-to-use material editor lets you effortlessly control the texture, relief, roughness, reflectivity, metalness, opacity, or emissivity of your PBR materials.
Let the world in on your ideas
Whatever you imagine you can render in Lumion.
See your designs in a new light
Light impacts every detail of your architectural designs.
The new Lumion 2023 render engine combines rasterization with ray tracing techniques to give you greater control over your light, shadows, and reflections.
Light changes everything
Curved reflections
Add a touch of magic
Architectural rendering does more than show form and function. It conveys a feeling.
With multiple atmospheric and cinematic effects, you can give your architectural designs a distinct mood that is bound to capture hearts and minds.
Create atmosphere. Ignite emotion.
Add depth and dimension
A world of context at your fingertips
Crafting a complete environment for your design is as easy as adding nature, objects, and characters.
From conceptual to realistic
Choose from 8 different predefined styles to instantly balance light, depth, and realism.
Lumion also enables you to create custom effect stacks that you can easily reuse across projects, to give all your architectural renders a signature style.
Inspire at every angle
Embed life, color, and texture into your technical renderings.
With Lumion Pro, you can make stunning orthographic views with lively plans, sections, and elevations of your architectural design.
Tell a compelling story
Show the process behind your design’s development or construction through the power of animated phasing.
Reveal your creativity
Compare multiple model and material variations and show different design solutions to guide the decision-making process.
Lumion for
An extension of your imagination
With Lumion, you’re in control of your ideas. Create stunning visualizations of every angle of your design — at any point in your creative process
