topic Boxy and rough looking contours in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/boxy-and-rough-looking-contours/m-p/378891#M5335 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I generated 5 ft contours from a DEM using spatial analyst. Some came out looking fine, but some came out looking square, boxy, and rough looking. Has anyone had this problem before? I have attached an examle for review.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:07:04 GMT NadavEpstein 2010-10-05T17:07:04Z Boxy and rough looking contours https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/boxy-and-rough-looking-contours/m-p/378891#M5335 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I generated 5 ft contours from a DEM using spatial analyst. Some came out looking fine, but some came out looking square, boxy, and rough looking. Has anyone had this problem before? I have attached an examle for review.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:07:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/boxy-and-rough-looking-contours/m-p/378891#M5335 NadavEpstein 2010-10-05T17:07:04Z Re: Boxy and rough looking contours https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/boxy-and-rough-looking-contours/m-p/378892#M5336 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I generated 5 ft contours from a DEM using spatial analyst. Some came out looking fine, but some came out looking square, boxy, and rough looking. Has anyone had this problem before? I have attached an examle for review.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/12598-Unable-to-produce-usable-contours-amp-hillshade-from-GeoBase-1-50K-dem">Related Topic?</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You may be seeing this because of a digitizing technique that results in something called Manual Profiling. There is also a suggestion to adjust some of the parameters, specifically the offset, when generating your contours.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:46:19 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/boxy-and-rough-looking-contours/m-p/378892#M5336 DonovanCameron 2010-10-05T18:46:19Z