вЂњWe just published EmberвЂ™s standard prototyping resinвЂ™s formulation this morning under a CC-BY-SA license,вЂќ Bastian tells. Today, Andreas Bastian, 3D Printing Research Scientist at Autodesk,В has informed that the company has also just open sourced their 3D printer resin.

In turn, this could create a large demand for their 3D modeling software, thus bringing in revenues indirectly. Autodesk doesnвЂ™t appear to have their sights set on profiting off of the sale of these machines, but they instead are focused on trying to make 3D printing accessible and useful to the masses. The printer, which is priced at $5995, aims to help advance desktop 3D printing as a whole.

Recently, Autodesk announced that they had begun taking orders for their open source stereolithographic 3D printer, the Ember. This typically leads to a fasterВ adoption rate, and a massive amount of iteration on behalf of those ideas and creations. On the other hand, it allows for the quick dissemination of those ideas. As an individual inventor, on one hand, this means allowing anyone to use your inventions and innovations without having to compensate you monetarily. The open sourcing of files and designs take the idea of filing for patentsВ and instead approaches the market from a totally differentВ perspective. If it werenвЂ™t for groups such as RepRap, whoВ really encouraged the sharing of open source files for building 3D printers, most of the desktop 3D printer manufacturers that exist today probably would never have come about. Open source technology is what brought the desktop 3D printer space to where it is now.

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