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Ease of use is critical when it comes to the efficient creation of architectural visualizations. The PureGlass® user interface technology makes Lumion simple to use. You could even say that drawing with a pencil is more difficult than creating appealing presentations in Lumion! Lumion 5.3 contains a number of interface changes which make actions even more intuitive, including the management of models, objects and materials.

Since Lumion is increasingly used as the standard solution for BIM visualizations, constant innovation is crucial. In addition to the many new features highlighted in this web page, Lumion 5.3 also contains more than 50 general modifications aimed at improving the overall Lumion experience.

Architectural firms are under constant pressure to deliver, communicate and revise their designs. Large and small firms alike have to meet tight deadlines, make last-minute changes and satisfy high client expectations. This often leaves little spare time for the fun and excitement of the creative design and visualization processes, which are at the core of what drives Architects and Designers. It seems that even finding the time to be able to learn the latest techniques and methods is hard enough for most architectural professionals.

The makers of Lumion deeply understand this problem. Lumion has been developed to help alleviate this pressure by making everything easier and faster for an Architect, who faces a tight deadline but who still wants to produce beautiful images and an evocative animation of their design. The basics of Lumion can be learned in minutes and its layout is so intuitive that, like riding a bicycle, once learnt you don’t forget it, even when you’ve spent some time away from doing it.

1. You can do it yourself

Lumion enables anyone to create movies and images without any prior training. This means you can do everything yourself and you do not have to spend time or money on external visualizations. Lumion is a complete solution to create images and visualizations from start to finish. All you need is a model and Lumion will take care of the rest. With Lumion you get years of experience of computer graphics experts presented in a way that’s easy to access.

2. Very fast results

You can edit your work in real-time and everything is designed to save you time. This means you can set up a visualization in just a few minutes and make alterations as you go. End results are rendered using GPU rendering technology. This ensures that your movies render in a fraction of the time required by other solutions. With Lumion you have more than enough time for videos in situations where you would normally have to settle for still images.

3. Make your visualizations look beautiful

Rendering is just one of the things necessary to create effective visualizations. To create wonderful visuals you also need beautiful skies, water, grass, materials, plants, people, trees and many other objects. Usually you will have to hire people to create these extra assets for you or find a third party content library. Lumion includes a huge library of tools and content. Everything is perfectly integrated so you can immediately add trees, people and other content to breathe life and atmosphere into your visualizations.

4. Do new things with visualization

Traditionally visualization comes with many restrictions. Rendering takes a long time and software is almost always complex. Lumion completely turns this upside down by providing tools anybody can use. No training in graphics is required. Editing and rendering are almost instantaneous and this opens doors to new ways for your business to use the possibilties that visualization offers. For example, you can customize a video in real-time on the spot or you can add sketch effects to your visualization instantaneously with a click of your mouse, which immediately furnishes your work with a conceptual and artistic feel.

5. Create big visualizations

A lot of software struggles with large models or large areas. The unique technology of Lumion makes it very suitable for things like landscape visualization. Effortlessly, you can edit large areas and add literally tens of thousands of trees, plants or buildings. We get a lot of feedback from our users that Lumion currently is the only software in the world which allows you to effortlessly edit and render such large areas. We’ve even had examples of a whole towns visualized in Lumion!