# Processing area export

**URL:** <https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003>\
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper Questions/Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003 "2019-02-18T10:42:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lieven\_Emonts-gast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@Lieven\_Emonts-gast](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Lieven_Emonts-gast)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003/1 "2019-02-18T10:42:48Z")

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Is it possible to export the processing area i made to a .shp file, so i can reuse it in the following survey?

I do monthly surveys of the same area to monitor progress, so this would be very handy.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Jaakko\_Laihola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jaakko\_Laihola](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Jaakko_Laihola)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003/2 "2019-02-18T11:20:13Z")

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You can’t directly export processing area. You could draw a polyline that you want to use as a processing area export it as .shp then import it as processing area in map view.

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**Author:** ![Lieven\_Emonts-gast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@Lieven\_Emonts-gast](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Lieven_Emonts-gast)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003/3 "2019-02-18T16:44:05Z")

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Ok, but that requires additional steps. Shame this can’t all be done in Pix4d itself.

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**Author:** ![Jaakko\_Laihola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jaakko\_Laihola](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Jaakko_Laihola)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/processing-area-export/8003/4 "2019-02-18T17:11:50Z")

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All can be done in Pix4Dmapper

You just need to export the polyline once. After that you can use same .shp file as processing area

Just import the processing area that you defined using polylines