[Qgis-user] Saving selections as new layer

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

> Garth Fletcher garth at jacqcad.com
> Sat Dec 20 15:06:40 PST 2025

> Select (highlight in Layers) the layer from which you want to copy 
> features,
>    use selection tool to select states,
>    Edit > Copy,

> Note: if you want to Copy into a layer that doesn't yet exist
>    then first use Layer > Create Layer  to create a new layer in Layers.


Actually there is no need to previously create a new layer if you want 
to copy the features into a layer that doesn't yet exist.

You can just use the
- "Edit > Past Features As > New Vector Layer" functionality in order to 
directly create a new vector layer file containing the copied features

or the
- "Edit > Past Features As > Temporary Scratch Layer" (Ctrl+Alt+V) 
functionality in order to directly create a new temporary memory layer 
containing the copied features.

Regards.

Andrea