How to Enable 'Stretch Curve’ Command in NX 1872?

 The ‘Stretch Curve’ command is useful for moving geometric objects while stretching or shrinking selected lines.

Command Finder - Stretch Curve
Linear Menu - Menu > Edit > Curve > Stretch

NX Stretch Curve

In NX 12, this command was marked as “to be retired”. It was removed from the linear menu.

Enabling ‘Stretch Curve’ Command

Continuing to the next NX version NX 1847 series, this command remained as “to be retired”.
Starting from the NX 1872 series, it was completely removed. But the same command can be enabled and used in the NX 1872 series versions using the environment variable “NX_SHOW_EDIT_CURVE_STRETCH”.

To enable the command, the user has to set the environment variable “NX_SHOW_EDIT_CURVE_STRETCH” to 1.

Upon setting the environment variable, In the new NX (1872) session, you can add this command to toolbars/ribbon using the “Customize” command.


Note
Command was restored in NX 1899 and it was marked as ‘Legacy’.

In the NX 1899 series, this command can be found using the Command finder or linear menu.


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