Creating Matching Nuts for Screws Help

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I’m making a model in parts that is assembled. I want to use screw in parts for better reliability. Making the screw is easy enough from the Shapr3D tutorials. What I need advice on is the marching nut part.

I took the screw I made and did a Transform / Subtract to get the nut to match the screw. Seems like a good way to do this. When printed it’s really too tight of a fit to be useful. My question is what is the best way to get a matching nut to my custom screws so they are not super hard to put together?

I thought about doing the Subtraction method to get my exact nut again but then expanding the nut on the X and Y by .2 mm. But I thought I’d ask in case I’m missing a better way to do this.

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Unless these are custom threads I would just download the appropriate bolts/nut models from McMaster-Carr and print those. Has worked very well on the occasions I’ve needed to do something like this.

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Let me check out the site and see if this would work. Thanks.

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@Husar
This may be helpful:

https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/about-printing-in-3d/8856