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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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"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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What do you like best about Lumion?

Lumion really helps to get a realistic idea of what the project would actually look like. This makes it easy for the clients to understand the concept better and helps us gain their trust. Apart from this, it is very user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Needs a very high configuration laptop otherwise it lags alot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The laptop lags alot while using this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

It iis very easy o get hight quality render with a platfrom that is very easy and intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

I don't diskile anything, it is very easy to manage each part of the interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

Have a great grpahic card and at least 30 GB RAM installed on your PC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

High wulity renders for the place I work clear images for the clients of what we are working Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

Easy interface, quick to learn, realistic approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Should have a more complete material library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm an architect, lumion allows me to demonstrate a project to my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

natural elements collection is very impressive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Need more water cascade or water elements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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More compatible with other software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

sometimes the file gets crashed and heavy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

Lumion has extremely simple user interface. It is easy to transfer my 3D models from SketchUp to render quickly. Also, I can add trees, furniture, people, natural elements in this programme without losing fast usage feature. Different natural earth surfaces and weather conditions can be selected from the Lumion Library based on my project environments. I locate my designs in these environments directly. Adding these elements and grouping are very convenient to revise project after client feedbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Moving in the Lumion environment can be sometimes a nightmare due to the wide objective feature. I am struggling to go a certain point of the design by moving slowly. Additionally, it is hard to develop interior design render as for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I solve render problems with Lumion quickly as it takes huge time generally in other software. Mostly, I include additional elements in the Lumion because it is quicker than other solutions. Also, I create fantastic atmospheres in my 3D models and export them easily as a jpeg file in different size options such as web usage or print usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

The stock library of entourage and vegetation makes it incredibly quick and easy to populate my models so that they look interesting and convincing without taking ages to do.

This saves a lot of time in photoshop afterwards, and it is able to be applied to a set of views that are pre-configured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Navigation of the app is unintuitive and different from other modelling software, so has a pretty steep learning curve. Also, the origin point of models can be quite problematic when placing updated massing from 3d software such as Rhino.

I would recommended paying for the premium license so that you get access to the full stock library of people and planting, as the free tier only gives a pretty limited selection of choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

It does what it says on the tin. Provides quick but attractive renders efficiently. I would warn that the user interface does have a somewhat steep learning curve, and the navigation is a little unusual. Otherwise would thoroughly recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a tremendously powerful tool for creating a very quick batch of illustrative renders of your project. Because you can render multiple views simultaneously, and the model can be auto-updated with new massing, it makes it very efficient.

Realistic vegetation and entourage also populate models quickly, so that you don't have to do any post-production afterwards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

It is a quick learning software equipped with all great features to be implemented in an easier way. It also offers amazing output and renders in less time compared to other softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Hardware hungry, still needs a lot of development to compete with other high-end rendering software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

Lumion is going to be the future of rendering software in the coming times and you will be addicted to it once you get a hang of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quick conceptual renders, space visualisation, making customers understand designers vision and marketing of residential homes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elías Jose R.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

i have used this for a while, and is a great tool to create photorealistic images and good videos for clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

the library could be better, because the objecs are a little bit dull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

You can the best results of Lumion after a while using it. So dont worry if at the beggining it seems to be all bad, with practice you will get there. Watch tutorials and practice a lot. The integration with different softwares such as sketchup has been improved in the last versions, be sure to check that out, it is going to surprise you how easy it is now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

presentations for clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lumion?

What I like best about Lumion is how quickly I can create renderings. I can easily populate scenes and create rough vignettes setting up for post production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

The program is still a bit glitchy with certain commands acting oddly - for example rotating when placing gets a bit tricky. I also wish one could customize hot keys. I also wish there was some way to have multiple users edit or make it easier to load entourage from other models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

Very easy to use and implement - totally worth while to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our clients and subs gain a better understanding of the space we are creating. The program is quick thus decisions can be made faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antonio T.
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What do you like best about Lumion?

It hands out great quality renders in a short span of time. Includes a lot of valuable 3d resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumion?

Controls and shortcuts are a huge drawback. I cant understand why mainstream shortcuts such as Ctrl+Z arent implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumion:

Consider purchasing Lumion 9.5 wich will include Lumion 10 update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At the studio, we were struggling to create High Quality videos on a short span of time, Lumion led us to solve that. Also 360 degrees rendering time & quality are unbeatable if done in Lumion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.