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Plugins

Twinmotion supports files from all major CAD, BIM, and modeling solutions, and offers direct one-click synchronization with many of them. Plus, take your Twinmotion project to the next level in Unreal Engine.

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17 Plugins
17 Plugins

Datasmith exporter plugin

For 3ds Max

Compatible with 3ds Max 2017 - 2024

Datasmith exporter

For Allplan

Built in to Allplan 2023.1 and higher
With Direct Link functionality
No download required!

Datasmith Exporter plugin

For Archicad

Compatible with Archicad 23 - 27
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith Exporter

For BricsCAD

Built in to BricsCAD V23 and higher (Windows)
With Direct Link functionality
No download required!

Datasmith exporter plugin

For CET

Compatible with CET

Datasmith Exporter

For CityEngine

Built in to CityEngine 2022.0 and higher
No download required!

Datasmith exporter plugin

For form•Z

Compatible with form•Z pro, form•Z jr, form•Z Student Edition v9.0.6 or later

Datasmith exporter plugin

For Modo (Beta)

Compatible with Modo 16 and higher
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith exporter plugin

For Navisworks

Compatible with Navisworks 2019 - 2024

Datasmith Exporter plugin

For Revit

Compatible with Revit 2018 - 2023
With Direct Link functionality
No download required for Revit 2024 or higher!

Datasmith Exporter plugin

For Rhino

Compatible with Rhino (including Grasshopper) 6 - 7
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith exporter plugin

For RIKCAD

Compatible with RIKCAD 9 - 11
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith Exporter plugin

For SketchUp Pro

Compatible with SketchUp Pro 2019 - 2023
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith exporter plugin

For SOLIDWORKS

Compatible with SOLIDWORKS 2020 - 2023
With Direct Link functionality

Datasmith Exporter

For Vectorworks

Built in to Vectorworks 2022 and higher
With Direct Link functionality
No download required!

Unreal Engine plugin

Datasmith Twinmotion Content for Unreal Engine

Compatible with Unreal Engine 5.1 - 5.3 and Twinmotion 2023.1 - 2023.2

Unreal Engine plugin

Datasmith Twinmotion Importer Plugin for Unreal Engine

Compatible with Unreal Engine 4.27 - 5.1 and Twinmotion 2020.2.3 - 2022.2.3

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From first projects to the most demanding real-time challenges, our free and accessible resources and inspirational community empower everyone to realize their ambitions.

System requirements

Twinmotion is available on Windows and macOS. To view the minimum and high-end system requirements, visit our support community.

Discussion forums

Want to connect with other Twinmotion users and members of the Twinmotion support team to ask questions and discuss burning topics? Head on over to our forums. 
This course will give you the basic skills you need to take your first steps with the application. We'll explain the user interface, show you how to move around your scene, review various methods for importing your data, and demonstrate how to use the industry templates to kickstart your project.

In this course, we'll take a detailed look at the most important tools and libraries in Twinmotion. You’ll learn how to set up materials, paint a forest, and populate your project with people and decals. We'll also cover using the integrated Quixel Megascans and Sketchfab libraries. Finally, we’ll take a look at how to set up lighting, as well as reviewing some of the Path Tracer settings.

This course will cover how to create and export media in Twinmotion, demonstrating how easy it is to create images, videos, panoramas, and even real-time presentations. We’ll also show you how you can share some of these media types online through Twinmotion Cloud or Artstation, and even take your Twinmotion projects to the next level by opening them Unreal Engine.

Frequently asked questions

Twinmotion is currently available for Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit), and macOS Monterey 12.5*. See the Twinmotion System Requirements article on our support community site for full details. The Path Tracer has additional requirements; you can find out more in this article.

*Note: While Twinmotion is able to run on M1 chipset machines, M1 chips are not currently fully supported or leveraged.
Twinmotion features direct one-click synchronization with Allplan, Archicad, BricsCAD, CET*, Modo*, Revit, Rhino (including Grasshopper), RIKCAD, SketchUp Pro, SOLIDWORKS, and Vectorworks, and the ability to import entire scenes from 3ds Max, CityEngine, form-Z, and Navisworks in uDatasmith format. In addition, you can export your Twinmotion projects to Unreal Engine. You can download the relevant plugins from the Twinmotion plugins page (support for Allplan, BricsCAD, CityEngine, Revit 2024, and Vectorworks is built into the source apps).

You can also bring in data from virtually all 3D content creation programs, with support for importing FBX, SKP, C4D, OBJ, glTF, 3DS, DAE, DXF, EV, LW, LWB, LWM, LWO, LWS, LXP, PLY, STL, WRL, WRL97, VRML, and X file formats.

*Note: These plugins are provided by third-party vendors for a fee.
No, you don’t need to have Unreal Engine to use Twinmotion. However, if you'd like to take your project to the next level with custom interactions and advanced animations and simulations, you can export it directly to Unreal Engine. Visit the Twinmotion plugins page to download the required Unreal Engine plguin.
Datasmith is a collection of tools and plugins that bring entire pre-constructed scenes and complex assets created in a variety of industry-standard design applications into Twinmotion or Unreal Engine. See Getting Started using the Datasmith Workflows with Twinmotion for more details.
Direct Link is a workflow for users who want to easily send the information from their design or modeling software into Twinmotion. This enables you to quickly update your content with a one-click synchronization button; you can even synchronize data from multiple different source packages into the same Twinmotion project. To get this working, you will need to have one of the compatible plugins installed, in the cases where this functionality is not already built into the source application.