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The short answer is someone designed it specifically to demonstrate calibration across different printing conditions and it took off in no small part because it’s cute and can serve as a filament sample.

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This. If you really know the tugboat, you know almost every detail is a test of some sort. Many people don’t even know that 2 fit together perfectly(flip one upside down and rotate 180° - the smoke stacks fit into the box behind the cabin and they interlock)

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