By .asc I'm assuming you mean an ESRI ASCII grid file. There are several ways to convert a raster to vector for output to shape, including these two transformers:

• RasterCellCoercer: converts each raster cell into either a polygon or a pixel with the raster cell value as an attribute
• RasterToPolygonCoercer: Outputs polygons of contiguous raster cell values

Let us know if that doesn't cover what you need.

Hi @david_r, Thanks for the responce. Yea it is an ESRI file. I used the RasterToPolygonCoercer , however it has created ( currently ) 85,000 lines and polygons. I think I need to re-class the ASCII before I convert it to a Shapefile?

To clarify, I have a maximum depth grid ASCII output from Tuflow. All I want to do is have a shapefile showing what the max outlines are.

How can I edit the ASCII to get rid of the Z values, then translate to a shapefile?

Cheers,

Mike.

I'm not quite sure I understand precisely what you need, but if you need to reclassify the raster you can look at this answer from @takashi: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/35421/classify-raster-data-by-breakpoints.html

If you need depth contours, you can use the RasterCellCoercer to convert the grid to points and send them to the ContourGenerator.

If nothing of the above fits, please consider posting an example of what you need, e.g. a screenshot or an illustration.