How to Make Custom Screw-On Lid Jars in Nomad Sculpt (With a Hidden Strawberry Jar!) Ever wish you had the perfect container for snacks, screws, or your secret stash? Well, grab your stylus and fire up Nomad Sculpt, because today we’re diving into how to make custom jars with screw-on lids. Not only are we making functional containers, but we’re also designing a hidden strawberry jar that’s as sneaky as it is stylish. Let’s get into it.
Why Make Your Own Jar? Sometimes off-the-shelf just doesn’t cut it. Maybe your workspace needs a jar that fits in a specific nook. Maybe you want a strawberry-shaped stash container because—well—why not? Designing your own screw-lid jar means: you control the size and shape, you can customize it to look like literally anything, and you can hide cool stuff in plain sight.
Step 1: Get Your Thread Models To get started, you’ll need thread models—both female (inner) and male (outer). If you haven’t downloaded them yet, grab them free from my website (link below). These models will let you make functional screw-on connections in Nomad Sculpt.
Step 2: Build the Base of Your Jar Import the Female Thread – This will be embedded in the bottom part of your container. Create the Jar Body – Use a cylinder or custom shape for your jar. Center the Thread – Make sure it’s aligned perfectly inside the container. Import the Male Thread – This one will be used in your lid.
Step 3: Make the Lid Duplicate the base cylinder and move it above the container to form the lid. Position the female thread into the lid and align everything at the center axis. Pro tip: Use opaque view to help line things up visually. Once aligned, hide the thread, then do a voxel remesh to cut the thread out of the lid interior.
Step 4: Carve Out the Jar Interior To make your container actually hold things: Clone your jar body. Scale the clone down to fit inside the jar. Align the smaller inner cylinder and make it invisible. Perform a voxel remesh again to create the hollow space. Boom—your container now works.
Bonus: Flip the Threads You can also reverse the design so the male thread is on the bottom and the female thread is on the lid. This gives you a tighter, more watertight seal—perfect for food-safe prints or liquids.
Step 5: Make the Secret Strawberry Jar 🍓 Now for the fun part: a strawberry-shaped secret stash. Design the Outer Berry – Sculpt your strawberry shape. Add a Divider – Use a cylinder as a flat slice across the middle. Use Grid Alignment – I placed the divider between the 3rd and 4th grid lines for precision. Split the Berry in Half – Use the Split tool. Add Threads – Insert the same screw threads used before and voxel remesh them into the top and bottom halves. Now you’ve got a sneaky little jar that looks like a strawberry—but opens to reveal whatever you want to hide.
Recommended Filament For our strawberry jar, I used Creality’s SoleYin Strawberry Cream PLA. It’s got the perfect color and finish for fruity fun—or just clever camouflage.
Final Thoughts You can use this same process to turn almost any object into a container. Whether it’s a jar shaped like a mushroom, robot, or even a dragon egg—if you can sculpt it, you can make it screw open.
Want the Free Files? You can grab the female and male thread models, as well as the full strawberry jar model.
🔗 Download the FREE screw thread STL files here: https://makerbuildit.com/products/3d-modeling-thread
🔗 Download the FREE screw top container STL files here: https://makerbuildit.com/products/small-threaded-jar-container