[Qgis-user] Replicate and enlarge polygons

[Matt Giovanni]

Dear QGIS users and developers-

I am a new user of QGIS and am very much enjoying the program.  Thanks in
advance to everyone for a wonderful resource.

I have a polygon that I would like to replicate and enlarge, such that the
replicate polygons are 2mi/3.2km and 10mi/16.1km distance outward from the
original polygon but retain the same shape.  I've tried using most of the
default vector tools, in addition to some plugins but am stuck.

I thought perhaps I could "explode" the polygon into points, generate a
3.2km radius buffer around each point, and then merge the buffers into a
single polygon, but have not found a vector tool or plugin to transform
lines to points.

Thanks so much for your help!

Matt
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