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Using the Plugin Builder

Using the Plugin Builder - QGIS Tutorial

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Using the Plugin Builder

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- [Narrator] Next we're going to use the plugin builder, to build the shell, of our plugin that we're going to be building later on. So first let's go under plugins, plugin builder, and plugin builder. And there's a plugin builder three, two, one. The class name, we're just going to call it save DXF. So what this plugin is going to do eventually, is be able to choose from a dropdown list of the current layers in your project, choose one, and then be able to save it as a DXF file. So that layer can be exported individually as a DXF file, so that you could open it within the QGIS project, or any other products such as AutoCAD. So I'm going to call this class name and plugin name both, save DXF with an underscore. And I'll just say this DXF exports a layer to DXF. And I'll just call it, save DXF, keep it. Consistent all the way through. We'll leave the version 01, that's fine. Minimum QGIS, yes this was written for three, the…

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