Architectural design rendering
Bring your structures to life with the greatest ease, in the highest quality
Fit for your creative process
Easy to learn, satisfying to use, and quick to render, Lumion keeps you in your creative flow—from the early stages of design development to the final client presentation.
Visualize as you design
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-tuning your design.
Lumion LiveSync is available for SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, ArchiCAD, Autocad, Vectorworks, BricsCAD, and more. SketchUp
A world of possibilities
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.
Make surfaces feel real
Materials make buildings feel alive. They open up your senses and give spaces character. Lumion comes with thousands of high-quality materials that you can make your own with surface decals, weathering, soft edges, and more.
Displacement Maps
Show the relief and detail on surfaces with custom or built-in displacement maps.
Material library
Textures you can almost touch
Make your surfaces feel exactly as you envisioned them by importing, customizing, and creating any texture you can think of.
Lumion’s easy-to-use PBR material editor lets you effortlessly control the texture, relief, roughness, reflectivity, metalness, opacity, or emissivity of your materials.
Make your surfaces feel exactly as you envisioned them by importing, customizing, and creating any texture you can think of.
Lumion’s easy-to-use PBR material editor lets you effortlessly control the texture, relief, roughness, reflectivity, metalness, opacity, or emissivity of your materials.
Try Lumion
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See your designs in a new light
Light impacts every detail of your architectural designs. Lumion gives you the tools to fully explore this dimension, from conducting sun studies to integrating artificial lighting.
The new Lumion render engine combines rasterization with ray tracing techniques to give you greater control over your light, shadows, and reflections.
Curved reflections
Sun Studies
Show how light affects your architectural design at different moments with the sun study effect.
Water reflections
Glass reflections
See how your building's surfaces reflect light.
Add a touch of magic
Architectural rendering does more than show form and function. It conveys a feeling.
With multiple atomospheric and cinematic effects, you can give your architectural designs a distinct mood that is bound to capture hearts and minds.
Reveal your design in different weather conditions with atmospheric rain and snow or add a burst of color with the autumn effect.
Weather and seasons
Add depth and dimension
Add ambience to your scene by combining volumetric lights and fog.
Real Skies
Instantly set the mood of your architectural rendering with over 50 different HDRI skies or import your own custom skies.
LUT color grading
Give your renders an artistic touch with easy-to-apply LUT presets.
Context at your fingerprints
Crafting a complete environment for your design is as easy as adding nature, objects, and characters.
Communicate your designs
From conceptual to realistic
Choose from 8 different predefined styles to instantly balance light, depth, and realism. You can also 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.