[Manifold-l] Does exporting a surface actually work?

[Steven Wilson]

I've spent two days with a arc/info analyst trying to provide him with a readable surface I created in Manifold. Here's what he reported to me:

-The .bil file imported inverted from north-to-south with only one grid value
-The import function choked on the .e00 file
-The geotiff has lovely stiped artefacts
-The .grd file can't be added to his project.

Without Arcinfo I have no way of diagnosing these problems. I have an old copy of arcview 3.2 and I can confirm that the geotiff in fact has artefacts, the import71 program will not translate any .e00 I've created in Manifold, and the SDTS raster-to-grid tranlator chokes on an exported SDTS from Manifold.

This has been a frustrating and embarrassing exercise and I'd like to know if anyone has had similar experiences and has any suggested work-arounds.

Steve