Lumion 8.5 is available now! Discover what’s new with LiveSync for ArchiCAD
Accelerated Architectural Visualisation workflows. Live
synchronisation with your CAD model! For Revit, Sketchup and now
ArchiCAD too!
With LiveSync, you can immediately set up a real-time visualization of
your 3D CAD model in Lumion. Change the CAD model’s shape in Revit or
Sketchup or ArchiCAD and you’ll see these changes instantly taking place
in Lumion’s dynamic, true-to-life environments.
Sync materials and camera views, and enjoy the convenience of an interactive CAD-Lumion workflow that lets you feel the space as you design.
Lumion 8.5 is the world’s fastest 3D rendering software for
architects. Turn on LiveSync. Model your design in its real-life, future
setting. And enjoy the convenience of a simplified workflow with
beautiful results.
What’s new in Lumion 8.5
New LiveSync for ArchiCAD
Accelerate your 3D design workflows by modeling your ArchiCAD project
while seeing it in Lumion’s real-time, breathtaking environments. The
new LiveSync for ArchiCAD plugin lets you instantly establish a live
connection for simultaneous modeling and rendering.
By modeling designs in their future environments, you’ll dive into the creative flow of design development. Solve design problems by exploring how your model interacts with real-life elements such as light and shadow. And enhance presentations by making changes to your model on-the-fly and rendering them immediately, beautifully.
Interior Camera Sync
Lumion 8.5 is now available as a free upgrade
for Lumion 8 or 8.3 users.
Real-time materials synchronization
Feel the rough textures of a weathered brick wall. Take in the aromas of
new wood furniture, and remember what it’s like walking barefoot on
cold stone tiles in the morning. With LiveSync for ArchiCAD, you can
breathe life into the design by applying any of Lumion’s 1000+
high-definition materials to the real-time, synchronized model. As you
continue working on the design, you can tweak the material settings
exactly to your liking and then save your material layouts for future
rendering.
Live point-of-view synchronization
Synchronizing your design and rendering workflow has never been this
smooth. When you rotate the view of your building in ArchiCAD, the
point-of-view rotates in Lumion. Find that perfect viewing angle, you’ll
have the same point-of-view in Lumion. With live point-of-view
synchronization, LiveSync in Lumion 8.5 immediately adopts the ArchiCAD
camera perspective, helping you work faster and effectively.
Automatic model imports
By starting the LiveSync connection, Lumion automatically imports your
ArchiCAD model. Continue working on and modifying your project even
after you turn off LiveSync, and easily save the file as an .LS8 for
future rendering or development.
Additional outputs for photo rendering
Pull out the depth map. Easily create a sky alpha map, and streamline
post-processing with additional outputs when rendering photos. In Lumion
8.5, it’s now possible to render several output types right from Photo
mode. You can quickly render a depth map, normal map, lighting map,
specular reflection map, sky alpha map or material ID, ideal for fast
post-processing work with beautiful, unique results.