QGIS – Getting the Bounding Box for Each Feature in a Layer

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I have a polygon layer with multiple polygon features drawn on it.

I need a tool that will draw a bounding box around each polygon feature individually. Right now everything I try in the tool box draws a single bounding box that encompasses all the polygon features. Is there such a tool?

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In the Processing Toolbox (Processing Tab > Toolbox or Ctrl+Alt+T) you will find a tool called Bounding boxes. This will achieve what you want.

If your layer contains some multipart features you might want to run the Multipart to singleparts first (Depending on what output you want.)

Input > Output:

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