<div dir="auto">You can do this built in processing tools by interpolating the points. Here’s the workflow <div><a href="http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/interpolating_point_data.html">http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/interpolating_point_data.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Ujaval </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 8:55 PM, Bernd Vogelgesang <<a href="mailto:bernd.vogelgesang@gmx.de">bernd.vogelgesang@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<pre style="font-family:monospace"> i have imported several elevation model files into qgis. they come in as
x,y,z, elevation points. The original files are of the type: GDBINDEXES,
GDBTABLE FILE, GDBTABLX, and SPX. can someone help me with a workflow for
gridding and contouring these elevation files so that they look like either
a contoured topo map or density contoured DEM. i am able to import the
points but need some help with the contouring
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<p>Plugins might be your friend:</p>
<p><a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/search/?q=contour" target="_blank">https://plugins.qgis.org/search/?q=contour</a><br>
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