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Lumion 2023
Bring your vision to life
You decide what the future holds.
Visualize it in Lumion 2023.
See the future with Lumion 2023 – Introducing ray tracing v0.9
The new Lumion 2023 marks the beginning of a new era for 3D architectural visualization.
Add realistic light, shadows, and reflections to your renderings at the touch of a button. The new ray tracing effect in Lumion lets you control the number of samples and bounces, giving you more control over the final result. With ray tracing switched on, your renderings will automatically show realistic indirect lighting, non-screen space reflections, contact shadows, and much more.
The scope of the new ray tracing effect will continue to be expanded and new additions will be easily made available thanks to the new software updater included in Lumion 2023.
Explore the top features in Lumion 2023
Take your clients for a journey in, through and around your model in 360 degrees.
Make your spaces come alive
With Lumion, you can transform any 3D model into an experience others can see and feel.
Easily add context, detail, and atmosphere to your visualizations. With one-touch controls and a diverse content library of materials, objects, characters, and nature items, Lumion gives you all you need to breathe life into your designs.
Oscar Niemeyer, Casa das Canoas, 1951 © Pictoright Amsterdam 2022
The best of both worlds
New high-quality materials
Lumion 2023 comes with 98 new materials that you can use to add realism to your buildings’ surfaces or landscape designs. These include wood, stone, brick, plaster, metal, concrete, asphalt, soil, and grass.
On top of these additions, Lumion 2023 now has an improved glass material that lets you fine-tune every last detail of your project’s windows and other glass surfaces. You can now add a custom texture like relief or frostiness and adjust the distortion to your liking. The new glass material is currently not compatible with ray tracing v0.9.
Office Chairs
Help your clients imagine themselves in your design, with Lumion’s extensive library of lifelike people.
Interior Objects
51 new assets including office chairs, couches, decorative plant pots, and more
Fine-detail nature
24 new plant and tree models from Oceania
Characters
100 new 3D static characters
Improved Color Correction
Balance the colors in your scene with greater precision with the new histogram.
Refined Depth of Field
Draw attention to a specific part of your scene by placing objects in or out of focus with the improved depth of field effect.
Full PBR material workflow
Improved Scene Editor
Building your scene is one of the most creative parts of the rendering process. With a redesigned interface, Lumion’s scene editor prioritizes simplicity and ease of use. Arrange and rotate your assets with precision using the new gizmo and instantly align objects with the improved Auto Snap feature.
Aspect Ratios
Control the composition for your visualizations by rendering directly in your preferred aspect ratio. Choose from a range of formats, including square and vertical aspect ratios, and save time cropping your photos and videos post-render.
New Camera Paths
Create animations faster and easier than ever with new camera paths that give you greater control and smoother camera movements
High-speed, high-quality renders
Whether you have 7 hours or 7 minutes, it is refreshingly simple to create stunning images, videos, and 360 panoramas. From the first design evaluation to the big client presentation, Lumion’s fast rendering speed enables you to incorporate visualizations at any phase.
Work Anywhere With Your Team
Whether you model in SketchUp, Revit, 3ds Max, Rhino or many others, Lumion instantly breathes life into your designs. No training required, and after just 15 minutes, you can learn to create jaw-dropping images, videos and 360 panoramas with lightning fast speeds.
Animated Phasing
Show the stage by stage process behind your design’s development or construction and not just at completion through the power of animation.
Orthographic Views
Not confined to perspectives now you can embed life, color and texture into all of your models views to make orthographic plans, sections, elevations and more.
Live Sync
Lumion® is for designers who want a better way to work. In SketchUp®, Revit® or ArchiCAD® use Live Sync, to immediately set up a live, realtime visualization of your model.
Fine-detail Nature
Fine-detail Nature models are the most detail-rich, beautiful 3D trees, bushes, shrubs and more. These finely detailed natural models visually enrich the real life atmosphere of your project.
Volumetric Fire
Cast a feeling of coziness and warmth to your interior and exterior renders with volumetric fire objects.
Massive Content Library
To create wonderful visuals you need beautiful skies, water, grass, materials, plants, people, trees and many other objects. Lumion includes a huge content library with tools, materials and artistic effects.
Make It Real
Visual clues that draw you in to the design itself – from light flickering on the water to rain drop on a window pane to leaves blowing in the wind and falling on the ground!
Big Spaces
Effortlessly edit large areas and add literally tens of thousands of trees, plants or buildings. We’ve even had examples of a whole town visualized in Lumion!
| New PC purchase consideration | Considering the purchase of a new PC for Lumion?…Minimum requirements shown below. Lumion-ready CAD laptops |
| With this hardware you can handle complex designs and projects such as: |
A small park or residential building with Lumion models and textures. Please note that this configuration will not be capable of smoothly handling Lumion’s high-end features. We recommend upgrading if you find that your computer is close to these minimum requirements. |
| Internet connection | The PC running Lumion must be connected to the internet. |
| Graphics card | GPU scoring a G3DMark of 9,000 or higher with up-to-date drivers. (Such as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Quadro RTX 4000, AMD Radeon RX 5700, or better) |
| Graphics card memory | 6 GB or more |
| Operating system | Up-to-date Windows 10 64-bit (version 2004) or newer |
| CPU (processor) | Intel/AMD processor scoring a single thread CPUMark of 2,200 or higher. (Such as the AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, Intel Core i7-4790S or better) |
| Screen resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels or higher, but this will impact Lumion performance |
| System memory (RAM) | 16 GB or more |
| Hard drive | SATA SSD or HDD |
| Hard drive space | Minimum 75 GB of free disk space in the drives where the Windows User Account and Documents folder are located in. |
| Power supply | Click here to see which power supply you need (minimum 80+ gold-rated with sufficient wattage) |
| New PC purchase consideration | Considering the purchase of a new PC for Lumion?…Basic requirements shown below. Lumion-ready CAD laptops |
| With this hardware you can handle complex designs and projects such as: | A small park or part of a city made with OpenStreetMap or other simple models. A large home with detailed interiors made up of several models and HD textures. A single residential or commercial model with a single section of the landscape using some high-end models, such as the fine-detail trees. |
| Internet connection | The PC running Lumion must be connected to the internet. |
| Graphics card | A GPU scoring a G3DMark of 16,000 or higher with up-to-date drivers. (Such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or better). |
| Graphics card memory | 10 GB or more |
| Operating system | Up-to-date Windows 10 64-bit (version 2004) or newer |
| CPU (processor) | Intel/AMD Processor scoring a single thread CPUMark of 2,600 or higher. (Such as the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Intel Core i5-8600 or better) |
| Screen resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels or higher, but this will impact Lumion performance |
| System memory (RAM) | 32 GB or more |
| Hard drive | SATA3 SSD or NVME m.2 storage |
| Hard drive space | Minimum 75 GB of free disk space in the drives where the Windows User Account and Documents folder are located in. |
| Power supply | Click here to see which power supply you need (minimum 80+ gold-rated with sufficient wattage) |
| New PC purchase consideration | Considering the purchase of a new PC for Lumion?…Requirements shown below. Lumion-ready CAD laptops |
| A PC with this hardware can handle ultra complex designs and projects with several high-end features, such as: |
A detailed city, airport or stadium. A detailed multi-floor building with interiors made up of many models and HD textures. A detailed landscape made with high-end Lumion features, such as high-detail trees and 3D Grass. |
| Internet connection | The PC running Lumion must be connected to the internet |
| Graphics card | A GPU scoring a G3DMark of 22,000 or higher with up-to-date drivers. (Such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA RTX A6000, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or better). |
| Graphics card memory | 16 GB or more |
| Operating system | Up-to-date Windows 10 (version 2004) 64bit or newer |
| CPU (processor) | Intel/AMD Processor scoring a single thread CPUMark of 3,000 or higher. (Such as AMD Ryzen 5 5500, Intel Core i7-11700T or better) |
| Screen resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels or higher, but this will impact Lumion performance |
| System memory (RAM) | 64 GB or more |
| Hard drive | SATA3 SSD or NVME m.2 Hard Drive |
| Hard drive space | Minimum 75 GB of free disk space in the drives where the Windows User Account and Documents folder are located in. |
| Power supply | Click here to see which power supply you need (minimum 80+ gold-rated with sufficient wattage) |
Does Lumion work on Mac?
Maybe, but seriously it isn’t worth the trouble, especially now that the M1 chipset is the norm in Mac machines. The M1 is not supported at all. Even if you have an Intel based CPU the graphics cards in Mac machines are generally not up to par.
Using Lumion on Macs is not officially supported. Act-3D B.V. and CAD International provide no warranties on any of the functionality in Lumion and do not accept any liability claims arising from the use of Lumion on Macs.
We recommend running Lumion on Windows PCs as they can be configured with more powerful hardware than Macs which will make editing and rendering significantly faster.
More information about running Lumion on a Mac (opens a new tab)
What's the difference between the Standard and PRO ?
The Pro version has many more features and a 3 x larger library than the Standard version.
What items are in the library?
The library is huge, but most items are only found in the Pro version. The standard version only has about 1/3rd of the content compared with the Pro version.
See Content Library Here (The darker images are Pro only content)
Does Lumion work with my CAD software?
Lumion supports almost all modelling software such as ARCHLine.XP, Rhino3D, SketchUp, ArchiCAD, Revit, Vectorworks, BricsCAD, ARES, IronCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, IronCAD and many more. If you’re unsure, download the trial and check it out for yourself or ask us and we’ll check your model files for you.
Why is your price less than Lumion in Europe?
To encourage you to support Australian business we have made it a policy to offer the same product at a better price than if you were to purchase from Lumion in Europe – Guaranteed.
Also, because we are in Australia and registered for GST, if you are too then you get to claim the GST back saving you a further 10%. You can’t claim it back if you buy from Europe.
What license options are available?
Subscription licenses that run for one year or three years and includes all upgrades.
You can install on more than one computer in your business and use it on any of those machines, but not at the same time.
You can add more users/’seats’ to your initial license to run multiple sessions at the same time. For example if you have 4 seats you can install on 10 machines but run on 4 machines at the same time.
You need to be connected to the internet to run the software as it checks your license online when you start the software, then releases the license when you close the software.
Does Lumion support remote desktop access?
Lumion 9.0 and later versions are supported on some virtual PC/remote desktop platforms. We’ve listed a few third party providers in the link below that offer virtual cloud desktop services.
Important: Not all virtual cloud desktop offerings can run Lumion; many of them do not meet Lumion’s hardware requirements. Always check if the virtual cloud desktop you are purchasing has hardware that matches Lumion’s System Requirements. Read more here
Our free PRO trial vs. the limited trial from Lumion.com
Only our free trial download is unrestricted.
- Ours lets you create files that you can later open in the commercial version. Lumion.com trial models can’t be opened later at all wasting all your evaluation modelling time!
- Ours contains all the content. The other has only 15% of the content library.
- Our trial includes Lumion Viewer, MyLumion, OpenStreetMap and Panorama Mode. The Lumion.com one does not!
Our FREE trial is the latest version of the full PRO version without limitations.
What happens to my old license when I upgrade to subscription?
Your perpetual license will remain valid even after you upgrade to a Lumion Subscription and you will retain the same number of seats. You can simply use either the Perpetual or Subscription license but not both at the same time. If you choose to stop subscription you can still continue to use your perpetual license.
Can you supply Lumion outside Australia?
Sorry we can’t. We are the exclusive sole Lumion distributor for Australia and its territories only. For other countries refer to the point of contact for your region.
What Others Are Saying
“Rendering used to be reserved for a few specialist jobs and making animations was completely unrealistic. Lumion changes all that.”
Mike Bell, Bellamy’s Ltd.
“Lumion is remarkably easy to learn and use. Sometimes software can be frustrating but not with Lumion!”
Erik Varvel, Modeller, Clart Patterson Lee
“We are really happy we found Lumion because it helps us realize our vision by bringing projects to life.”
Michael Bryant, Bryant Design Studios
“When we apply the trees, the lighting and the sky, Lumion makes our design look so realistic. It makes it so alive. You almost feel like you can close your eyes and be inside the rendering.”
Matt Zhang, Director of Design & Development, The Luxe Design Studios
“Lumion is so easy to use. As soon as you
open the software, you fall in love with it.”
Mathieu Anfosso, Lead Designer, Ten Over Studio
“I feel proud that I can bring 2D spaces to life and craft visuals that inspire people to take action, to protect or conserve or enhance nature in public spaces.”
Stephanie Braconnier, Founding Principal, Future Landscapes
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Students and teachers in Australia may be eligible for a free educational license whilst completing architectural, interior and landscape design related courses.
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