Revit and Rhino plugins

How to create renders in Lumion from Revit & Rhino

0) Install plugins and how to use them?

Revit plugin - https://support.lumion.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007538494-Download-Lumion-LiveSync-for-Revit Rhino plugin - https://support.lumion.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010160093-Download-Lumion-LiveSync-for-Rhino

Once the plugins the program needs to be restarted in order for them to show up.

Lumion offers you two different ways to bring your model into Lumion, LiveSync and export the file seperately. The functions of these are presented further down.

Livesync - when you press LiveSync Lumion will import everything that's visible in your 3D-view of choice, important that you're aware of which 3D-view you have active so everything you'd like to see in Lumion comes along.

A tip is to create a unique 3D-view that's supposed to be for Lumion, so you know that you'll only bring in what's necessary.

Export - if you'd like to have seperate files within Lumion the export function is great, then you can divide the project in different files. As example you could import the LARK file seperately if you're not working on that, then keep the LiveSync only active with the ARK, making the workflow easier.

1) Open your Revit/Rhino file.

In Revit you need to open and activate the 3D View that you would like to render. (bold name in the project browser)

In Rhino you can have different views with different objects that are show/hidden.

Once that's done you press the Lumion tab and hit the Play-button.

Interface in Revit

Interface in Rhino

2) Syncronizing geometry to Lumion view

When you've pressed the play-button Lumion automatically creates a Live-link between the geometry in the active view (bold name in the project browser) and the Lumion render view.

If your scene is very heavy and detailed, it's a good idea to press the pause button in your drawing program while you're in Lumion that will stop the automatic syncronizing. When you would like to make changes again you just hit the play button again and the Live-link is restored.

Pause button in Revit.

Pause button in Rhino.

3) How does the Live-link work?

When you've pressed the play button Lumion automatically creates a Live-link. Which means that everything you do in Revit or Rhino will automatically update in Lumion. For example, if you move or delete a object Lumion will directly update this.