Creating a single contour
Contour lines are a familiar way of representing surfaces on maps. A contour is a line through all contiguous points with equal height (or other) values.
You can create contour lines for a raster, triangulated irregular network (TIN), LAS dataset, or terrain dataset surfaces. You can create contour lines by clicking a point on a surface to create a single contour line that passes through it.
Steps:
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In ArcMap or ArcScene, click the Create Contours button
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- Click the surface at the point where you want the contour.
The contour is added as a 3D polyline graphic. The height of the contour is written to the status bar.

- The 3D polyline graphic can be copied and pasted among ArcMap, ArcScene, and ArcGlobe.
- For information about enabling the interactive tools with terrain datasets, see Interactive tools for terrain datasets.
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8/16/2013