Free Differential Cutaway 3D Model

differential.glb
Blue axle housing cut open with red cut faces showing steel and brass gears inside, on a yellow stand
Differential Cutaway 3D model (Lightweight, CC0)

Cutaway rear axle differential with a quarter of the blue housing removed, showing ring gear, pinion, spider and side gears, on a yellow stand.

Free under CC0 for personal and commercial use, no attribution. Download without login as GLB, FBX, BLEND, USDZ or OBJ. Lightweight with 38,618 triangles and 2K textures. It includes 1 movable part as a separate object.

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Download GLB 2.7 MB

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Technical details

Quality tier
Lightweight Stylized, 2K or palette textures, game-ready
Triangles
38,618
Textures
2K (2,048 px) Base ColorRoughnessMetallicNormal
Dimensions
0.50 × 0.33 × 0.24 m (W × D × H)
Moving parts
Rotor A Separate objects with their own pivot, ready to animate.
Published
Category
Vehicles

Size comparison

Differential Cutaway: 0.50 m wide and 0.24 m tall, next to a 1.80 m person1.80 m0.24 m0.50 m
Differential Cutawayperson 1.80 mBounding box to scale, next to a 1.80 m person.

About this model

A teaching style differential gear 3d model that shows how a car splits power between two wheels. A quarter of the blue axle housing is cut away and every cut face is painted red, like on a classroom model. Inside, the drive pinion with 11 teeth meshes with a 41 tooth ring gear, both bevel gears sharing one cone apex on the axle. The ring gear is bolted to an opened differential case that holds two side gears with 16 teeth and two spider gears with 10 teeth on a cross pin, all engaging correctly. Axle shafts lead out through the tubes to wheel flanges with five studs, and the pinion shaft ends in a companion flange. Two rotating parts: rotor_a is the case with all axle side gears, rotor_b the pinion. Compared with the closed Manual Gearbox it explains the inside. Size 50.3 x 32.6 x 23.8 cm, 38,618 triangles, 2K PBR textures.

Good for

  • Automotive classroom or museum
  • Car repair garage display
  • Mechanic training game
  • Technical illustration

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Engine import notes

Unity GLB · FBX

Import the GLB with the glTFast package or use the FBX. 1 m in the file = 1 Unity unit.

Unreal Engine FBX

Use the FBX. The model is built in metres. Unreal works in centimetres and converts on import, so it arrives at real size (0.24 m = 24 cm).

Godot 4 GLB · FBX

Drag the GLB into the FileSystem dock. Godot 4 imports it directly, with materials. The FBX works too (Godot 4.3+ imports it natively).

Blender BLEND · GLB

Open the .blend directly, or import the GLB via File › Import › glTF 2.0.

Use it in: UnityUnrealGodotBlender

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