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What do you like best about Lumion?

Ease of Use, Intuitive menu and dedicated support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

I would like to see more payment options . The software is good per se. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shortens the time between rehiterations of multiple ideas within a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lumion Overview

What is Lumion?

Lumion is a real-time 3D rendering software tailored for architects, designers, and visualization professionals. With an intuitive workflow and rapid rendering speed, Lumion empowers you to bring architectural designs, interiors, landscapes, and urban plans to life with unparalleled speed and accuracy. Lumion is compatible with all major CAD and 3D modeling software such as SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, Rhino, AutoCAD, Allplan, Vectorworks, BricsCAD, and many more. Thanks to the seamless integration of Lumion into your visualization workflow, you’re in control of your ideas – at any point of your creative process. Featuring an extensive library of close to 10.000 objects, characters, and materials, Lumion offers an extensive toolkit that you can utilize to transform your vision into immersive experiences that captivate and inspire. With Lumion, you can transform any 3D model into an experience others can see and feel – whatever you imagine for your design, Lumion makes it easy to capture the aesthetic, the sensations, and the emotions of your project. You decide what the future holds. Visualize it in Lumion.

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Lumion is a software that creates videos, images and 360 panoramas for architect.


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Emmanuel A.
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4.0 out of 5
"Easy, an amazing workflow trough Autodesk"
It's amazing when you start working with Lumion. The workflow between Revit and Lumion is incredibly simple, allowing you to seamlessly integrate b...
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"Ease of Use and Optimized Workflows"
Ease of Use, Intuitive menu and dedicated support.
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"3D Animation Software"
The best part of this software is its animation. We can do animation very easily and effectively on this software. You can bring any file of differ...
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Emmanuel A.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

It's amazing when you start working with Lumion. The workflow between Revit and Lumion is incredibly simple, allowing you to seamlessly integrate both. When you immerse yourself in the Lumion environment, you'll spend a few hours to achieve excellent results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

One of the challenges with Lumion is managing materials. It's not very easy to work with, especially when dealing with large projects, making it complicated to handle them within the Lumion environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's an incredible way to showcase your project in record time. The user-friendly management allows our coworkers to be very creative and focus on the project, rather than trying to understand how to use the program. Of course, this helps our customers get what they need as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hunter G.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

I really like how fast I can produce a good looking rendering with limited experience. I really appreciate all the materials and objects that are included in the software. Saves me a bunch of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

There aren't too many things I can say negatively about Lumion. I guess one thing that I've noticed is when I render a scene from a distance the shadows tend to scatter. It's not a smooth gradient shadow effect. If that makes sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to produce realistic renderings for my clients to better visualize their building/house. I really love the live sink and easy adjustments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fernanda C.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

What I like the most about lumion is how user friendly is, and the realistic quality you can achieve on your renderings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

What I dislike is that you cant model in Lumion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lumion helps me create architectural renderings that allow me to showcase me design better, and it helps my clients get a more realistic idea of what their project is going to look like once it gets built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

The best features of Lumion with respect to me is being able to render 3Ds thjat has the most realistic approach towards the renders.

Along with that the texture, lighting, material library and effects that it provides are one of the key factors that bhave made my life easier throughout the rendering process.

And finally the feacture that actually stood out of the box when compared to other rendering apps was it already had a pre existing set of 3D library of people and furniture and trees, basically everything that was needed for the realistic approach of design and renders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Although Limon has a very easy User Interface and everyone with basic knowledge of rendering can actually get renders done easily but still there are features that would need a bit of learning edge such as it took me hard to understand the aspects of lighting as the preview of the render and post render images had different lumionsity variations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Initially the software actually helped in generating renders very profoundly and easily. Its faster execution and the ability to render multiple images was something that helped in getting work done faster.Simultaneously, the material library and the 3D component library that was pre existent helped in generating the surrounding environment much more realistic and the scaling option that it provided for the model ws equally helpful for the rendering process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

Lumion simplified our jobs by facilitating quick and efficient final image renders. It doesn't necessitate in-depth rendering and graphics design knowledge. And it produces incredible-quality images, posters, and other printable media to exhibit to clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Only the Windows operating system supports Lumion.Although the procedure is fairly simple, the lumion engine occasionally consumes so much processing power that it crashes background apps. Additionally, the quality of your graphics card and PC's processing power affect the final product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

The best feature of Lumion is how simple it is to use at first; anyone can start to render basic scenes without much difficulty. One of the largest component libraries you can find in software like this, the component library is really large. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

Easy to use and learn. Brings about the best in video animation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Needs too much of a powerful computer that generally expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Architectural visualisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amine b.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

Assets , render Time , axonometrics , project complexité management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Interior renders , no Ray traycing , no path traycing , Fake ambiant occlusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lumion solved the axonometrics for master plan and élévations , it's a Big step to dominante architecture market , now we're waiting for Ray traycing to integrate in 2023 version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

Since the software was built based on a gaming engine, it follows the same way as how to navigate inside a game, which means that the controls are pretty familiar for someone who plays games. The interface is uncluttered and has a minimalistic approach, which is also the same for the mechanics of the software which is simple and easy to use. It is also surprisingly fast when it comes to rendering high-quality images. I've been using this software with SketchUp, and these two works really well together for both are very easy to use and produce fast results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

I just wish that there was a proper snapping mechanism when it comes to moving or rotating objects, like AutoCAD and SketchUp. I hope that this will be considered and implemented in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lumion produces high-quality renders at a very fast phase, which is really good when it comes to handling multiple or complex large projects.

Walkthroughs and animations are also done easily in Lumion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fitim T.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

Great Real Time review of the work, great choice of materials, amazing opportunities to modify materials. Great for fly through videos! Archicad synchronization is a game changer! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Elements library needs to be upgraded. Also, we can not edit the materials of the lumion element library. And most important, there should be a free and pro version! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast workflow, real time control over materials and effects, wide range of in house materials that cover 80% of my needs. Really fast gpu rendering, automatic synchronization with other programs such as archicad or 3Ds Max Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.