Discover Lumion View

Explore, refine, visualize—right inside your modeling tool. Now available for SketchUp.
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.
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.
Fully connected workflow
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.
Real time creativity
Explore, test, and refine ideas in real time with speed and clarity, so you can make faster, better informed design decisions.
Effortless diagrams
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.
Instant renders
Quickly produce up to 4K renders whenever you need to share your design progress with clients or your team.
Your new design partner
Enhance materials
Try 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.
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.
Frequent questions
How do I get access to Lumion View?
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.
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.
Which CAD/ BIM software is Lumion View available for?
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.
What hardware do I need to run Lumion View?
How does Lumion View differ from Lumion Pro?
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.
How does Lumion View differ from Lumion LiveSync?
- 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.
- 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.
Can I use Lumion View and Lumion Pro together?
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.