Model Rocket Nose Cone // Parametric

This is a OpenSCAD model rocket nose cone generator.

I wanted to take Lutz Paelke (lpaelke) OpenSCAD model and add a few more parameters to make it easy to create nose cones to adapt to any model rocket body tube.

Here are the parameters you can adjust quickly:

• Inner Diameter of rocket body tube
• Outer Diameter of rocket body tube
• Length of nose cone
• Cone Shape
  • "parabolic"
  • "power_series"
  • "haack"
  • default shape renders lpaelke's cone shape
• Adaptor length
• Recovery Hole Size
• Recovery Rod Strength

There is some wonderful mathematics on nose cone design. I'm grateful ggoss has already translated the math into OpenSCAD. I've used ggoss's nose cone functions from their "Nose Cone OpenSCAD Library, 1.0" that references the mathematics on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_cone_design

I hope this helps out some fellow model rocket hobbyists out there ✌

I wanted to take Lutz Paelke (lpaelke) OpenSCAD model and add a few more parameters to make it easy to create nose cones to adapt to any model rocket body tube.

• Clearer variables
• Added recovery hole size parameters
• Added adaptor length
• Added nose cone profiles
• Added “Estes” like bands for the inner diameter of the rocket body on the adaptor

Thanks to ggoss for translating the math into OpenSCAD for the nose cone profiles.