AutoDesk Announces Their Own 3D Printer and the 'Android' of 3D Printing

[catlover]

Here is a video interview with AutoDesk CEO Carl Bass

[Eddie]

From a tweet from Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on Monday:

First #Autodesk Spark 3D printers being built. Designed in London and SF. Made in California #3DPrinting

Can't wait to see these when they are released.

[Eddie]

I had the opportunity to speak with Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski on Monday. He revealed some interesting things about the Autodesk 3D printer and most importantly the Spark platform. Read more on this interview at: http://3dprint.com/16422/autodesk-spark-3d-printing/

[postmahomeson]

what is the exact technical specifications, what's it's exact full compatibility , is their what's it's market date (is it funding dependant for example kickstarter?) i need it to be officially Confirmed

[curious aardvark]

well you can rule out kickstarter. This is Autodesk - 12.2 billion market share.
And they've been releasing a bunch of free to use software recently as well.

Presumably spark will tie a lot of different aspects of 3d printing together.

Look forward to proceedings with interest :-)

[Geoff]

This will be bloody awesome, but will also be bloody expensive knowing Autodesk! but there is a reason as Curious said they are a 12.2 billion dollar market share..

I am still using 3DsMax 2.5 lol... it's the last thing I bought off them... prices just got silly after that.

[postmahomeson]

it's chances are strong that are going to grow a more than that in time

[postmahomeson]

lol on that video 1:20 minutes video time line

[Eddie]

For those interested, Autodesk is taking pre-orders for the Ember 3D printer - http://3dprint.com/28250/autodesk-ember-3d-printer/

[Xenaphilious]

Are people really pre-ordering without knowing the print volume, cost of resin or machine overall size? From the photos the print volume looks tiny.