Convert geometry type¶

Description¶

Converts a geometry type to another one.

Parameters¶

Input layer [vector: any]

Layer in input.

New geometry type [selection]

Type of conversion to perform.

Options:

• 0 — Centroids
• 1 — Nodes
• 2 — Linestrings
• 3 — Multilinestrings
• 4 — Polygons

Default: 0

Outputs¶

Output [vector]

The resulting layer.

Console usage¶

processing.runalg('qgis:convertgeometrytype', input, type, output)

See also¶