I received several responses to my question (original Q is below) about creating grids over a site. However none of them performed as I had hoped in that I was unable to specify the start point or snap point for the grid.

Sample http://www.quantdec.com/sample/index.htm sounded like it might work but it is a commercial extension and there was no demo version available to test it out.  The other suggestions were Edit Tools, Quadrant Analysis, grdmaker, and grdmake2, and I had previously been trying to use coorgrid.  All of which are available on the ESRI ArcScripts page.

Thanks everyone for your help, unfortunately it looks like I will be creating the grids in CAD and importing them to AV.



Original Question:

I am looking  for a script that will allow me to create a grid over a specified study boundary.  Something very much like the coorgrid extension except that I need to be able to specify the exact coordinate of the start point for the grid.  What I am trying to do is create a density map of artifacts for our archaeologist.  They will delineate a study boundary and array a grid in the field based on the first found artifact.  The start point for the grid and the boundary will be GPS'd so I will have know coordinates.  However if I cannot array my grid based on the same starting point then the density map is no good.

Any other ArcView using Archaeologists out there ever done this?

Thanks for your help and will sum

Bryan Agosti
The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc.
1800 Indian Wood Circle
Maumee, Oh  43537
(419) 891-2222  Fax:(419) 891-1595
bpa@msi-mec.com