# Creating male/female threads

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674 "2025-04-26T16:47:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ladyprintzalott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ladyprintzalott](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ladyprintzalott)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674/1 "2025-04-26T16:47:38Z")

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Hi! I’m really trying to understand what the best practice on creating threads are for a lid to a jar for example.

I’ve been creating a circular object on the x and z, access. Turn on front section view and create triangle on the y anxis and 360 rotate. I can get the male threads on great, I space them no problem. And it’s when I create the female side something is wrong.

Everything is too tight. I’ve done some 3d prints and in principle they should work, but I’m either not giving a tolerance or the angle?

Does anyone know of a tutorial maybe? I can find ones for threaded nuts, but this isn’t quite the same so I’m not sure if it should be created in the same way. This is just something I can’t figure out!

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**Author:** ![TheBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@TheBum](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TheBum)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674/2 "2025-04-26T17:43:12Z")

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Did a quick Google search and found this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nCvDPohX4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nCvDPohX4)

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**Author:** ![Ladyprintzalott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ladyprintzalott](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ladyprintzalott)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674/3 "2025-04-26T18:33:22Z")

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That’s the one I found as well it was pretty confusing but I can try again

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674/4 "2025-04-26T20:13:07Z")

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For what it’s worth, here’s a video I did some 4 years ago. Note that this was a much earlier Shapr3D user interface compared to the current with more features. Maybe this will help.  
-Mike

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/3/3734bae62ad86c67e5766d7b020d8cf0148dc7bb.jpeg "Custom Nut & Bolt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKd-ROMeSo)

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**Author:** ![Ladyprintzalott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ladyprintzalott](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ladyprintzalott)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/creating-male-female-threads/37674/5 "2025-04-26T23:32:56Z")

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Omg! This was so helpful! I did it!! Thank you so much!!!