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JOME Engineering has produced a replacement marine propeller in Dubai using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), reconstructing it from a 3D scan of the original since no CAD files or tooling were available. The 26 kg stainless steel propeller was printed on a Vipra AM system from Caracol, the Italian large-format additive manufacturing (AM) company, which describes it as the UAE’s first 3D printed marine propeller.
According to Caracol, printing the propeller shortened lead time by about 60 percent and lowered cost by roughly 40 percent compared with casting.
Recovering a Design With No Drawings
The client asked JOME to rebuild a propeller matching an existing one, and needed it qui