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It seems there is no geoalgorithm to drop z values in the QGIS processing toolbox. Can this be done programmatically using the Python console? At the moment I have to save the layer with unchecked 'Include z-dimension' checkbox (non automatic geometry type):

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  • You could use the QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat method (see for instance gis.stackexchange.com/questions/153309/… ). There is a includeZ parameter, but you won't need to pass it to the function because it's False by default.
    – Germán Carrillo
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 12:35

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For future reference - QGIS 3 includes a drop z value processing algorithm

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Specifically, the QGIS 3 tool is called Drop m/z values. It's in the Processing Toolbox, under Vector Geometry. The documentation is here:

https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#qgisdropmzvalues

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Here is how i convert a QgsGeometry (geom) of type PolygonZ to a Polygon in the console:

new_geom = QgsGeometry().fromPolygonXY(geom.asPolygon())

It is some kind of workaround since there is no dedicated method for that. So i dont know if there are better ways to do it. Using the processing tool as recommended in the other answers would be the correct way if you want to convert a whole layer i guess.

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