For example, click Home | New Map | Contour (or whichever map type you want to create), select the grid file and click Open.You can use this grid file to create maps. That will create a grid file from your data.
Click Finish (or, click Next or Skip to End to adjust other gridding parameters). If your data file has XYZ data and you would like to create a contour map or other grid-based map type (like Color Relief or 3D Surface), follow these steps: