Hex test part with center hole

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I was able to get my MakerBot printing the square test parts fine, but when I printed this, I realized that much more tuning was needed. I'm not sure how to tune the MakerBot using this part, but I know it would help, since the default settings make several very obvious errors with it, such as burying the nozzle in the plastic during the upper layers. Instructions Print it, If it comes out perfect with no blobs, Great! if not (which is the more likely outcome) you have more tuning to do. I'm currently messing around with layer height and feed-rates, as well as temperatures, and I'm pretty sure that once this part prints perfectly, I'll have a pretty amazingly tuned MakerBot :-) It's also an extremely small part, and doesn't really need a raft, so it takes very little time to print, and very little material. if anyone has success printing this really nicely, or using it to tune their MakerBot, Post a comment and I'll be happy to post what settings this was useful in tuning!