Lumion

RATING:

4.7

(152)

About 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 yo...

Lumion Pricing

Yearly new version with new functions, option to buy at reduced cost.

Starting price: 

€749.00 one time

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Lumion Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Lumion

1 - 5 of 152 Reviews

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Favio

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Architecture & Planning, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Easiest and most complete rendering engine and 3D real time visualization software

We used this software daily for our presentations with customers and they got amazed as well, because if they needed to change something, we just did it in the meeting and they saw the new image immediately on Lumion.

PROS

I keep getting amazed by how easy it is to render images on Lumion. You just import the model that you made in an external 3d modeling software and once inside Lumion, the magic starts by picking materials and inserting furniture, plants, select sky, etc. There is a wide variety of 3d models for furniture, people, plants, etc. The best part is that you can do all this in real time, as you move you see it rendered.

CONS

You will need a powerful computer to get the best results. But it is expected, not a surprise. Everything else is perfect.

Reason for choosing Lumion

Interface and learning curve.

Reasons for switching to Lumion

Faster and easier renders.

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Tichaona Redemptor

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Design, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2022

The only software needed for all kinds of design aspects.

Absolutely awesome.

PROS

Lumion is able to design anything that is in your imagination from houses cars to even a writing pen

CONS

There really is not much to say about Lumion that is negative besides the fact I have to be paying a subscription.

Reason for choosing Lumion

The price is good

Reasons for switching to Lumion

I had to give other product a try.

Andrea

Architecture & Planning, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2020

Lumion amazing!

I use it often, I managed to manage both small and large projects very easily

PROS

the ease of use of this software makes it truly unique, lumion is very easy for visual render, it's amazing software

CONS

I must say that there are no things that I did not like, I highly recommend lumion.This software is the best software visual render.

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Shubhi

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Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2023

Lumion the best real time render software out there?

Overall I was very pleased to use Lumion as its intuitive and fun to use.

PROS

The best thing about Lumion is that it is very easy to use in the beginning, anyone can start to render simple scenes without much effort. The component library is very huge, one of the biggest you can get in a software like this.

CONS

It is very expensive while we compare it to similar software. For professional grade quality you will have to invest more time and the system requirement to run Lumion is also high.

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Fariz

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Design, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2019

Ultimate Tool for 3D visualization and animation.

It saves time for creating superb animation walkthroughs/flythroughs and stunning images. It may be a bit of a learning curve but I would prefer Lumion to create animations compared to other 3d applications I have used over the years.

PROS

It saves time to create 3d environments around you model that you want to showcase, has realtime sun and night setting, creating oceans, landscapes, trees with ease which are pre-animated and according to physics. It renders faster than any other rendering plugin software and quality is even better. I can even create bokeh effects, depth of field, camera shakes and many more. What's cool is that you can create and populate the scene in real-time with effects like playing a video game. So you do not need to render every time you create a new effect just to see how it looks like. Saves time like a lot!

CONS

Lumion is NOT a modeling software. Your 3d models created are imported into the software and you populate the scene with its internal library. I find the internal library lacking models but Lumion keeps improving their 3d library in every new version released. Also, its interface can be confusing sometimes. This coming from experience using other 3d software which are far friendlier to use.