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Earlier this month, Autodesk brought a small piece of their infamous\u00a0San Francisco gallery to Paris<\/a>, focusing on the future of how things are made.\u00a0The #GalerieAutodesk<\/a>\u00a0has hosted several events\u00a0from various members of their community base, which includes nearly 15 million professional customers worldwide.<\/p>\n The pop-up gallery hosted Tuesday the Connected Hardware & maker community, including LeFabShop’s Bertier Buyt, Usine.io’s Gary Cige, former CEO of the Open Data initiative of the French Government Romain LaCombe, and Autodesk CEO Carl Bass (I also made small appearances on stage).<\/p>\n One of the central themes of the event, in addition to shedding light on the connected hardware community inFrance, was the Fusion 360<\/a> product, which Autodesk launched\u00a0as a collaborative tool to design products. The product, notably, is free to use. Bass jokingly stated that the official terms of use say that anyone\u00a0making less than $100,000 annually from products may use the product for free. Bass says that\u00a0the company has\u00a0already noticed that\u00a0non-paying users who begin to use increasingly the collaboration features, and begin to increase the number of designs added to the platform, as they approach that grey barrier of free vs. paying, and that many clients are already voluntarily using Fusion 360 across their entire industrial design team.<\/p>\n At the Gal\u00e9rie,\u00a0visitors\u00a0passing through the Marais were able to\u00a0get a first-hand look at a working model of Autodesk’s first 3D Printer, the Spark<\/a>, which the company announced earlier this year. While\u00a0Autodesk does not plan to go head-to-head with Makerbot and other 3D Printer manufacturers, the company hopes to set a standard for file types and information send to 3D Printers, and the Spark has been a great way to learn about putting that standard to practice.<\/p>\n