Shape Tools

Published on 2017-03-10 by C Hamilton

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Shape Tools is a collection of geodesic shapes and tools. Create circle, ellipse, line of bearing, points along a line of bearing, concentric circles, pie wedge, donut, arc wedge, star, ellipse rose, epicycloid, gear, hypocyloid, polyfoil, polygon, radial line, rings with radial lines, and heart shapes. Tools include "XY to Line" tool, densify lines and polygons along geodesic paths, geodesic line break, geodesic measuring and create a measurement layer, geodesic scale, rotate, flip and translate tools, and digitize points at an azimuth & distance tools.

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Overview

This plugin is stable and is useable for stable projects. This plugin is not marked as deprecated, so you can still expect some updates and bug fixes from original author.

Documentation

You can download the latest version from the download section of QGIS Plugins. However, it is recommended that you install this plugin via the QGIS plugin manager, as the plugin manager will do all the installation workflow in the background, and you can focus on actual work.

You can also consult the Home Page of this plugin to get more information on their versioning system and relevant documentation.

Codebase

You can use the plugin issue tracker to communicate with the original author if you ever encounter any issues/errors/problems with this plugin. The best place to start looking into the code base of this project is at the repository Link or your local QGIS plugins installation folder.

Requirements

This plugin requires that your QGIS installation has a minimum version of 3.4.0. If your QGIS version is larger than 3.99.0 then this plugin might not work properly. This plugin cannot be used on QGIS Server.