diff --git a/src/Mod/Part/Gui/CMakeLists.txt b/src/Mod/Part/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
index 57569603b0..485ba9cecf 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Part/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/Mod/Part/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ list(APPEND PartGui_LIBS
     ${QtConcurrent_LIBRARIES}
 )
 
-generate_from_xml(ViewProviderPartExtPy)
+generate_from_py(ViewProviderPartExt)
 
 set (Part_TR_QRC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Resources/Part_translation.qrc)
 qt_find_and_add_translation(QM_SRCS "Resources/translations/*_*.ts"
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ set(PartGui_UIC_SRCS
 )
 
 SET(Python_SRCS
-    ViewProviderPartExtPy.xml
+    ViewProviderPartExt.pyi
     ViewProviderPartExtPyImp.cpp
 )
 SOURCE_GROUP("Python" FILES ${Python_SRCS})
diff --git a/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExt.pyi b/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExt.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ef9d945f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExt.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from Base.Metadata import export
+from Gui.ViewProviderGeometryObject import ViewProviderGeometryObject
+
+
+@export(
+    Include="Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderExt.h",
+    Namespace="PartGui",
+)
+class ViewProviderPartExt(ViewProviderGeometryObject):
+    """
+    This is the ViewProvider geometry class
+
+    Author: David Carter (dcarter@davidcarter.ca)
+    Licence: LGPL
+    """
+    ...
+    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExtPy.xml b/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExtPy.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 76b9602ab4..0000000000
--- a/src/Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderPartExtPy.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<GenerateModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="generateMetaModel_Module.xsd">
-    <PythonExport
-        Father="ViewProviderGeometryObjectPy"
-        Name="ViewProviderPartExtPy"
-        Twin="ViewProviderPartExt"
-        TwinPointer="ViewProviderPartExt"
-        Include="Mod/Part/Gui/ViewProviderExt.h"
-        Namespace="PartGui"
-        FatherInclude="Gui/ViewProviderGeometryObjectPy.h"
-        FatherNamespace="Gui">
-        <Documentation>
-            <Author Licence="LGPL" Name="David Carter" EMail="dcarter@davidcarter.ca" />
-            <UserDocu>This is the ViewProvider geometry class</UserDocu>
-        </Documentation>
-    </PythonExport>
-</GenerateModel>