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In my QGIS plugin I select dynamically features from a Vector layer. And currently I create a new layer (shapefile) from selection on combining all feature into a new feature:

theField = QgsField self.theString = (os.path.expanduser("~")+'\.qgis\\statsRectangle.shp') feat = QgsFeature() shapeLayer2 = QgsVectorLayer(self.theString, "Upstream Area Of Interest", 'ogr') geomtotSubwatershed = QgsGeometry.fromWkt('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY') nodLayer.setSelectedFeatures(selectFeatureIDlist) UpstreamGeometry = QgsGeometry.fromWkt('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY') for elem in nodLayer.selectedFeatures(): UpstreamGeometry = UpstreamGeometry.combine(elem.geometry()) feat.setGeometry(UpstreamGeometry) QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().addMapLayer(shapeLayer2)

but combining selected feature take a long time and froze QGIS UI.

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  • Do you want a memory layer or shp file? Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 14:25
  • I want a shape layer Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 14:31
  • check out qgis.org/api/… (don't have time for a full answer) Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 14:39
  • Please, do not forget about "What should I do when someone answers my question?" Commented Apr 25, 2022 at 11:07

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In QGIS 3, there is new helper for that:

layer = iface.activeLayer() new_layer = layer.materialize(QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFids(layer.selectedFeatureIds())) QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(new_layer)

This will give you a memory layer. Then you can still write it to disk if necessary with the QgsVectorFileWriter.

PS, IMHO, you should try to avoid shapefile. People might come with some layers if longer field names and they will be truncated. Especially in QGIS3, GeoPackage is the default format.

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    It is really cool! Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 7:21
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Old question but I was searching for this today - here is what I did:

layer = iface.activeLayer() QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat( layer, 'H:/temp/' + layer.name() + ".shp", "utf-8", layer.crs(), "ESRI Shapefile", 1)

The boolean option '1' at the end of the command results in saving just the selected features of the layer.

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  • it asks me again the crs even I describe layer.crs() Commented Mar 14, 2018 at 7:56

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