diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/AppTechDrawGui.cpp b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/AppTechDrawGui.cpp
index 5f2978d8bb..4e84646f4e 100644
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/AppTechDrawGui.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/AppTechDrawGui.cpp
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ PyMOD_INIT_FUNC(TechDrawGui)
 
     TechDrawGui::Workbench::init();
     TechDrawGui::MDIViewPage::init();
+    TechDrawGui::MDIViewPagePy::init_type();
 
     TechDrawGui::ViewProviderPage::init();
     TechDrawGui::ViewProviderDrawingView::init();
diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/CMakeLists.txt b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
index a8cfc77149..1cffb31d8f 100644
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -36,11 +36,8 @@ else(BUILD_QT5)
     )
 endif(BUILD_QT5)
 
-generate_from_xml(MDIViewPagePy)
-
 # The XML files
 set(TechDrawGui_XML_SRCS
-    MDIViewPagePy.xml
 )
 
 link_directories(${OCC_LIBRARY_DIR})
@@ -206,7 +203,6 @@ SET(TechDrawGui_SRCS
 SET(TechDrawGuiView_SRCS
     MDIViewPage.cpp
     MDIViewPage.h
-    MDIViewPagePyImp.cpp
     QGVPage.cpp
     QGVPage.h
     QGCustomText.cpp
diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.cpp b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.cpp
index d5404a5cb8..5ff113d1ea 100644
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.cpp
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 #include <math.h>
 
 #include "MDIViewPage.h"
-#include "MDIViewPagePy.h"
 
 #include <Base/Stream.h>
 #include <Base/Tools.h>
@@ -71,6 +70,7 @@
 
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawHatch.h>
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawPage.h>
+#include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawPagePy.h>
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawProjGroup.h>
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawTemplate.h>
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawView.h>
@@ -1375,4 +1375,82 @@ MDIViewPage *MDIViewPage::getFromScene(const QGraphicsScene *scene)
     return nullptr;
 }
 
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+void MDIViewPagePy::init_type()
+{
+    behaviors().name("MDIViewPagePy");
+    behaviors().doc("Python binding class for the MDI view page class");
+    // you must have overwritten the virtual functions
+    behaviors().supportRepr();
+    behaviors().supportGetattr();
+    behaviors().supportSetattr();
+
+    add_varargs_method("getPage", &MDIViewPagePy::getPage, "getPage() returns the page being displayed");
+    add_varargs_method("cast_to_base", &MDIViewPagePy::cast_to_base, "cast_to_base() cast to MDIView class");
+    behaviors().readyType();
+}
+
+MDIViewPagePy::MDIViewPagePy(MDIViewPage *mdi)
+  : base(mdi)
+{
+}
+
+MDIViewPagePy::~MDIViewPagePy()
+{
+}
+
+Py::Object MDIViewPagePy::repr()
+{
+    std::ostringstream s_out;
+    if (!getMDIViewPagePtr())
+        throw Py::RuntimeError("Cannot print representation of deleted object");
+    s_out << "MDI view page";
+    return Py::String(s_out.str());
+}
+
+// Since with PyCXX it's not possible to make a sub-class of MDIViewPy
+// a trick is to use MDIViewPy as class member and override getattr() to
+// join the attributes of both classes. This way all methods of MDIViewPy
+// appear for SheetViewPy, too.
+Py::Object MDIViewPagePy::getattr(const char * attr)
+{
+    if (!getMDIViewPagePtr())
+        throw Py::RuntimeError("Cannot print representation of deleted object");
+    std::string name( attr );
+    if (name == "__dict__" || name == "__class__") {
+        Py::Dict dict_self(BaseType::getattr("__dict__"));
+        Py::Dict dict_base(base.getattr("__dict__"));
+        for (auto it : dict_base) {
+            dict_self.setItem(it.first, it.second);
+        }
+        return dict_self;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        return BaseType::getattr(attr);
+    }
+    catch (Py::AttributeError& e) {
+        e.clear();
+        return base.getattr(attr);
+    }
+}
+
+MDIViewPage* MDIViewPagePy::getMDIViewPagePtr()
+{
+    return qobject_cast<MDIViewPage*>(base.getMDIViewPtr());
+}
+
+Py::Object MDIViewPagePy::getPage(const Py::Tuple& args)
+{
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args.ptr(), ""))
+        throw Py::Exception();
+    return Py::asObject(new TechDraw::DrawPagePy(getMDIViewPagePtr()->getPage()));
+}
+
+Py::Object MDIViewPagePy::cast_to_base(const Py::Tuple&)
+{
+    return Gui::MDIViewPy::create(base.getMDIViewPtr());
+}
+
 #include <Mod/TechDraw/Gui/moc_MDIViewPage.cpp>
diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h
index ba5c85b4cd..e2f2655ce8 100644
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h
+++ b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "ViewProviderPage.h"
 
 #include <Gui/MDIView.h>
+#include <Gui/MDIViewPy.h>
 #include <Gui/Selection.h>
 
 #include <QPrinter>
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ public:
     PyObject* getPyObject();
     TechDraw::DrawPage * getPage() { return m_vpPage->getDrawPage(); }
 
-    QGVPage* getQGVPage(void) {return m_view;};
+    QGVPage* getQGVPage(void) {return m_view;}
 
     QGraphicsScene* m_scene;
 
@@ -173,6 +174,26 @@ private:
     QList<QGIView *> deleteItems;
 };
 
+class MDIViewPagePy : public Py::PythonExtension<MDIViewPagePy>
+{
+public:
+    using BaseType = Py::PythonExtension<MDIViewPagePy>;
+    static void init_type();
+
+    MDIViewPagePy(MDIViewPage *mdi);
+    ~MDIViewPagePy();
+
+    Py::Object repr();
+    Py::Object getattr(const char *);
+    Py::Object getPage(const Py::Tuple&);
+    Py::Object cast_to_base(const Py::Tuple&);
+
+    MDIViewPage* getMDIViewPagePtr();
+
+protected:
+    Gui::MDIViewPy base;
+};
+
 
 } // namespace MDIViewPageGui
 
diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePy.xml b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePy.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 25292969f8..0000000000
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePy.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +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="PyObjectBase"
-      Name="MDIViewPagePy" 
-      Twin="MDIViewPage" 
-      TwinPointer="MDIViewPage" 
-      Include="Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h" 
-      Namespace="TechDrawGui"
-      FatherInclude="Base/PyObjectBase.h"
-      FatherNamespace="Base">
-    <Documentation>
-      <Author Licence="LGPL" Name="openBrain" EMail="" />
-      <UserDocu>MDIViewPage object</UserDocu>
-    </Documentation>
-    <Methode Name="getPage">
-      <Documentation>
-        <UserDocu>returns the page being displayed</UserDocu>
-      </Documentation>
-    </Methode>
-    <CustomAttributes />
-  </PythonExport>
-</GenerateModel>
diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePyImp.cpp b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePyImp.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index e59dc8c326..0000000000
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPagePyImp.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-
-#include "PreCompiled.h"
-
-#include "Mod/TechDraw/Gui/MDIViewPage.h"
-
-// inclusion of the generated files (generated out of MDIViewPagePy.xml)
-#include "MDIViewPagePy.h"
-#include "MDIViewPagePy.cpp"
-
-#include <Mod/TechDraw/App/DrawPagePy.h>
-
-using namespace TechDrawGui;
-
-// returns a string which represents the object e.g. when printed in python
-std::string MDIViewPagePy::representation() const
-{
-    return std::string("<TechDrawView object>");
-}
-
-
-
-PyObject* MDIViewPagePy::getPage(PyObject * args)
-{
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, ""))
-        return nullptr;
-    return new TechDraw::DrawPagePy(getMDIViewPagePtr()->getPage());
-}
-
-
-
-
-
-PyObject *MDIViewPagePy::getCustomAttributes(const char* /*attr*/) const
-{
-    return nullptr;
-}
-
-int MDIViewPagePy::setCustomAttributes(const char* /*attr*/, PyObject* /*obj*/)
-{
-    return 0; 
-}
-
-