In this exercise, you will place points on the existing ground surface in a grid pattern.

1. On the View menu, click Named Views to display the View dialog box. Under Name, select 3, click Set Current, and then click OK.

   Use the following steps to set EG as the current surface.

2. On the Terrain menu, click Set Current Surface to display the Select Surface dialog box.

3. From the Select surface to open list, select EG, and then click OK.

4. On the Points menu, click Create Points - Surface On Grid.

5. Press ENTER to accept the default, 0 (zero) degrees, for the Grid rotation angle.

6. Use an Intersection Osnap to select the lower-left corner of the grid rectangle.

7. Enter 50 m for the Grid X Spacing, and then press ENTER to accept the default, 50 m, for the Grid Y spacing.

8. Use an Intersection Osnap to select the upper-right corner of the grid rectangle.

9. Press ENTER to accept the default, No, to accept the size or rotation of the grid/grid squares.

Points are set at specified grid nodes with elevations extracted from the current surface.

Click here to see an illustration of the points set on the surface.

This concludes the point creation lesson. In the next lesson, you'll learn about editing points.