Lumion View for SketchUp
Explore, refine, visualize—right inside your modeling tool. Now available as a SketchUp plugin.
Fast. Fluid. Always on.
Your new design companion
Lightweight and lightning-fast, Lumion View is a real-time rendering plugin for SketchUp that runs right inside your modeling environment.
With instant visual feedback and ray tracing built in, Lumion View makes it easy to explore, refine, and share early ideas as you design—without breaking your flow.
Now available on 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.
Produce up to 4K renders and share them instantly in Lumion Cloud for smoother collaboration and quicker feedback.
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 plan or included with the Lumion Studio bundle.
With Lumion Studio, you also get Lumion Pro as a floating license and full access to Lumion Cloud—giving your team flexibility to design and visualize at every stage.
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.
Share & collaborate
One-click render from Lumion View to Cloud—share instantly and keep projects moving.
With Lumion Cloud, your team and clients can review, comment, and align in real time. It's free to start and included in all Lumion plans. See how it works.
Gather visuals in one hub
Upload renders straight from Lumion View and keep every project organized.
Share instantly anywhere
Send secure links or QR codes so teams and clients can review with ease.
Capture feedback clearly
Draw, highlight, and comment with simple markup tools.
Keep projects on track
Track versions, project status, and approvals instantly with Kanban views.
Take your designs further
When your model is ready, simply import it into Lumion Pro—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 for a seamless workflow.
