Maximum Bridging Distance Without Supports in FDM 3D Printing: Limits, Tests, and Settings That Actually Work
The honest answer most slicer guides skip The longest bridge a typical FDM 3D printer can produce without supports is somewhere between 30 and 80 millimetres. The wide spread is not because nobody has measured it. It is because the maximum bridging distance is not a property of the printer alone — it depends on…