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Elevations Guide

The ‘Elevations guide’ imposes a grid design on a field in the working area and displays the elevation of points at each junction on the grid. When using this tool the cursor will become a crossClicking on the working area in the desired center point will create a grid. The grid size and position can be manipulated by using the yellow anchors.

  • ‘Grid cell size’. This option controls the size of the grid. Setting the size to 100m will result in each junction being 100 meters away from its neighbors.
  • ‘Alignment angle’ is a method of rotating the grid. 
  • ‘Text size’. This option is a drop down menu that allows you to change the text size of the values on the grid.
  • ‘Decimal places’. Sets how many decimal places will be visible on the grid values.
  • ‘Show elevation’, ‘Show offsets from mean elevation’, and ‘Show offsets from center elevation’. These options will adjust what data is present on the grid. 
  • ‘Use topmost layer’, ‘Use selected layer(s)’, and ‘Use all surface layers’ control which surface layer is used to calculate the elevation points on the grid.
  • ‘Display units’. By selecting this checkbox, the measurement units (meters, feet) will be shown on each value on the grid.
  • ‘Auto-update surface changes’. By selecting this checkbox the grid will automatically update the displayed values when surface layers are changed.
  • The grid is able to be exported into a CSV format by pressing the ‘Export to CSV’ button in the bottom right of the pop-up window.


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