Wankel Engine Model by mattmoses
The NSU Roadster -- an early application of the Wankel.
Just the sort of thing that makes car people’s hearts race…a beautifully-conceived but little-deployed technology, with some wonderful advantages that nearly overshadow the crushing disadvantages. That’s right – the Wankel Rotary engine!
We need to thank Thingiverse user mattmoses for modeling up a real, working Wankel-type rotary engine model — ok, well, it doesn’t actually burn gasoline, but it does turn around the driveshaft. And btw, how many triangles do you see in your boring old piston engine?
I’m pretty sure that this means I’m finally going to be able to print parts for my Eunos Cosmo.
This is a stand-alone Public Domain model of a Wankel Engine in OpenSCAD. This is intended more as an example of an interesting mechanism than as a useful engine.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
The file uses code appropriated from
Leemon Baird's PublicDomainGearV1.1.scad
which can be found here:thingiverse.com/thing:5505
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2 Comments so far
Taylor Cox
I have a mazda rx-8….it has a rotary engine
Ethan
I don’t really have a Eunos Cosmo.