I want to print a simple mechanism to adjust the distance between two pieces with a screw that can’t come out of its socket on either end. What’s the easiest way to model this?

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    1 year ago

    Model in a non threaded portion of your male “screw” with a diameter a bit smaller than your minor thread diameter, and the width of your “nut” female thread section. Print it vertical and put the nut over that non-threaded section so they don’t interfere. If you do it this way you can get singinifcantly better backlash/tolerances than printing a thread on top of another thread, where the threads might try to merge when printing.