Oh wow, this actually has me cautiously optimistic. Autodesk is a company with enough resources to really flood the market with both its hardware and software. At $5000 it's certainly not going to be the printer of the middle class, but I could certainly see it dominating the "small office" 3D printer market. I really don't see where Autodesk can go with hardware compatibility that they haven't already gone with existing printers, but name recognition could go a long way for them.

As for focusing their software towards 3D printing, I am downright recklessy optimistic.