Autodesk will launch its own professional-grade 3D printer during the year

Autodesk, a 32-year-old well-known 3D design software developer, has previously launched 123D designs on the ipad, allowing users to quickly create models for 3D printing on tablets.

In Wednesday, the company's CEO, Carl Bass, said in a DIY theme event in Silicon Valley that this year, it will launch 3D printers and software platforms for professional users spark--this is Autodesk's first foray into the hardware sector The product is priced at around $5000 trillion (the final price is still not finalised) and can be used to print small medical items, jewellery, etc.

Bass pointed out that there are many 3D printer manufacturers in the market have launched exclusive software and exclusive printing materials, each manufacturer is an independent closed ecological circle, the user experience is very limited. Instead, the Autodesk will launch a 3D printer that will be compatible with many other manufacturers ' printing materials. In addition, it publishes a complete design for the printer.

Compared with the use of hardware enclosure, Autodesk is more interested in using its software platform spark to become the 3D print industry-the latter through the Android system to build a huge smartphone and tablet ecosystem. Autodesk hopes that other 3D printer manufacturers will become spark platform users, which can further assist these companies to improve pricing, product development and other marketing activities.

At present, there are a few outstanding competitors in the market, such as: the previous acquisition of another industry leader MakerBot Stratasys, as well as the introduction of the dessert printer ChefJet 3D Bae.