30 Laser and CNC cutting panels Sketchup models can be customized in size

The Dynamic Sketchup decorative cutting models are not ordinary Sketchup Model. These models can customize the size without change of the detail size. These models can cut with Laser cutter or CNC Router Machine. Material of panels can be wood, paper, metal or plastic. In a few seconds you can draw completely the decorative partition wall. You only see These Dynamic Sketchup Models in 3dshouse plugin. Which help you save a lot of time when design the decorative cutting panels.

These models are built on SketchUp’s Dynamic Components engine, which is still supported and shipping in SketchUp 2026, so the panels keep working on current versions. Note that Dynamic Components only run in SketchUp Pro and the free web app for editing — but a model placed by someone with Pro continues to scale correctly even when opened in older or non-Pro copies, because the resize logic lives inside the component definition, not in your seat license.

Main Feature:

• The width, height, and thickness of the panel.
• The width of the border frame. You can go to View -> Hidden Geometry to see the hidden lines of model.
• The width, height, and spacing of the each pattern details.

These are the main parameters of CNC partition. Besides to each model, there will be extra features .

A subtle but important behavior: the pattern keeps its detail size when you change the panel dimensions, but it re-tiles to fill the new area. So the panel width/height you type should ideally be a whole multiple of the pattern’s spacing — otherwise the last row or column is clipped and you get a half-cut motif at the edge. If that happens, nudge the overall size or the spacing value by a few millimetres until the edge motif closes cleanly.

How to change pattern details of panels

(You can watch above video). Dynamic Sketchup only has programming features for Components or Groups, not for each line or the face of objects. So that, the model has fixed the detail design of each pattern. To change details:

• Click on the small pattern until all details selected.
• Change one and all patterns will change.

This is quite quick to get the design you want. You can even change it completely with a different pattern by retouching the pattern. This change does not affect the Dynamic feature of the model. You can save the model you have edited into many other templates for later use.

Because the dynamic logic is attached at the component/group level, any new lines or faces you draw by hand inside a pattern cell are NOT governed by the parametric attributes — they stay fixed in absolute size while the parametric parts around them scale. That is exactly why redesigning a motif still keeps the model “dynamic”: you are only swapping the geometry inside the repeating unit, not the attributes that drive the repeat.

How to cut decorative panels with any shape.

(You can watch above video). The decorative panels in reality have many shapes. In this example we will cut the corner of the partition, other shapes you do the same.

• First, draw the correct shape of the partition wall that you want with the outer frame.
• Grouping the objects so that they don’t stick when stacked on cutting panels.
• Scale the panel to match the actual size and set the parameters.
• Click Clean Dynamic button to remove the Dynamic feature for manual editing.
• Then explode to copy the plane of the partition wall for editing.
• Creating new lines on panel according to the pattern shape.
• Erasing excess faces and lines. It takes time, but this is still the most effective way.
• Once done you push to create a thickness and make a group for the panel.

Two things worth knowing before you commit to this step. “Clean Dynamic” is a one-way action — once the parametric attributes are stripped you can no longer resize by typing numbers, so always set the final dimensions FIRST and keep an untouched dynamic copy on a separate layer as your master. And when you are finally ready for the machine: SketchUp’s free web app and the old SketchUp Make cannot export DXF at all — flat-profile export for laser/CNC needs SketchUp Pro (DXF/DWG) or a free exporter such as the ABF plugin, which also nests the cut shapes onto sheet stock and writes the DXF in one pass, so you skip the manual face-copy-to-origin routine entirely.

Using the Dynamic Sketchup models is a much faster way of drawing than the traditional way using 2D software like Autocad. Because with 2D software you cannot adjust the size of each pattern. Each time you have a new project with different dimensions you almost have to redraw all. Also, 2D software takes a long time to export the model to 3D format to Render. With the example illustrated in the video, you can customize any decorative cutting panel design you want.