3D Printer Torture - Bridging & Overhangs

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MAD SCIENTISTS ONLY! Everyone else run for the hills! So, you say you have your FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D Printer dialed in. Your printer bridges so well if the build volume was larger you could build a bridge across a football (American or European) field. You claim the 45° rule is for newbs who can't properly calibrate their printers. The lines on your prints are so straight you get thrown out of LGBT conventions. Has your 3D Printer let you down a time or two? Do you want to teach it a lesson? This is a good way to torture...er...I mean test your 3D Printer. Ok. Time to put your filament where your mouth is. Stop! I didn't mean that literally! No, I know PLA is non-toxic but you still shouldn't eat it! *sigh* Where was I? Oh yes; time to, metaphorically, put your filament where your mouth is. This print is not for the feint of heart. It will push your FDM 3D Printer to its calibration limits. Do you accept the challenge? If you are successful you get a rather appealing geometric sculpture and the satisfaction of a triumph where so many others have and will fail. If you are not, well, humility is a good thing and that stringy lump of filament could, in the right light, be considered some sort of abstract, modern sculpture. Maybe. So what say you? If you get it done post a picture or two. Don't like the models you see? Use the Customizer to create your own.