Go ahead and make a contour map of your data. Choose a contour interval that provides you with as much information about the terrain as possible. Be careful not to obscure the map with too many contour lines. Make the grid active. Make 50-meter contour intervals.
Images Creating a hillshade image of a continuous scaled grid theme is a two part procedure.
Scroll down to the generated hillshade map to define the Brightness Theme and hit Apply on the legend Editor window. There is much more to raster analysis and Spatial Analyst than what is included in this lab. For now we will limit the discussion to slope calculation. The first derivative of a surface is often more important than the values of the surface itself. 8.2 Making a Slope map To make a slope map in Arcview, make your DEM active.