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.