[Qgis-user] Placing random points

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 19:20, Thomas Sebastien via QGIS-User
<qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Dear QGIS users,
>
> I’m trying to place a small number of points, n, randomly in a large number of polygons, N. But, the Vector>Research Tools> Random points in polygons tool only lets me place a minimum of 1 random point in each of the N polygons, i.e N points when I only need n. Do you know a way I can go about this?

How about dissolving the polygons into a single feature and then
placing the desired random number of points inside this dissolved
feature?

Nyall

>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastien
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