I'm a newcomer. I have a Soldoodle Pro 2. I've made a couple of objects. But I'm confused about how an object gets printed when it has a part that is free floating.

Example: Today I went to print an elephant (my wife likes elephants, but she hates my 3D printer hobby). The elephant's trunk hangs down, but not all the way to the elephant's legs. So as a result, building from bottom to top, the trunk's first layer is not connected to anything. This means the printer has to lay down a layer in thin air.

Well that doesn't work. But I've seen other people print objects where I'd expect this same thing to happen.

What's going on? Am I on crazy pills?