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Surfer 8 FAQ
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This document covers frequently asked questions about Surfer Version 8. For version 7, see Surfer FAQ for Version 7. For versions 5 and 6, running under Windows 95, 98, NT 4, 2000, Me, and XP see Surfer FAQ for Versions 5 and 6. For questions about older DOS versions of Surfer or running Surfer under older versions of Windows, contact surfersupport@goldensoftware.com.

Q1. How can I get the latest version of Surfer? Q2. Does Surfer 8 work with Windows NT? Q3. How do I create a a shaded surface without colors? Q4. When I overlay a surface map and another map and select the "Use overlay color only" option in the Overlays tab of the Properties dialog box, I lose the surface shading. How can I get a shaded overlay? Q5. When I combine a surface map with two bitmap base map overlays, only one of the overlays is visible. Q6. When I click the Apply button in the Properties dialog box to apply changes to my map, I want to click the Cancel button to undo the changes, but the Cancel button has no effect. Q7. When I use the Data Metrics Terrain Slope gridding option, the resulting grid is a horizontal plane. What happened? Q8. When I overlay a post map with 3D label lines on a surface map, the 3D label lines disappear. Q9. Can I add a North Arrow to a surface map and have it rotate with the surface? Q10. Data Metrics | Other Z Statistics | RMS with the no search option checked consistently gave the following error:

Internal Error Module GridLib.dll DataMetrics.cpp Line 507 Q11. I am using a 16-bit version of Windows (95, 98) and I want to plot my map on large paper, but Surfer 7 only accepts paper sizes less than 32.76 inches (83.21 cm). How can I bypass this limitation? Q12. How do I change the start directory for the Surfer Scripter program? It always starts in the "My Documents" folder under Windows 98. Q13. I want to use a BLN blanking file to blank the area outside a polygon, but when I load the BLN file as a base map, I can only fill inside the polygon. Q14. I want to blank the grid nodes outside several polygons on a map, but the entire map gets blanked, resulting in a horizontal planar grid. Q15. How can I reshape individual contour lines, without affecting the surrounding data? Q16. I have created a map with a custom scale and map limits. When I overlay a new map with the existing map, Surfer changes the scale and map limits back to the defaults. Is there a way to overlay a new map onto an existing map without changing the scale and limits that I have already set? Q17. I have a DXF file containing 3D polylines. When I import this file into Surfer, it only displays the two dimensional information. How can I get the 3D data into Surfer? Q18. How can I create a file containing the X, Y and Z coordinates of my contour lines? Q19. Can I control Surfer from another programming environment? Q20. How do I handle latitude/longitude data in Surfer? Q21. I have gridded my data set and created a contour map; however, no contour lines are displayed. What is wrong? Q22. How can I change the Surfer grid file blanking value to 0 or another value? Q23. How can I print a subset area of a map? Q24. How do I specify a scale of 1:24,000 in Surfer? Q25. When I overlay two maps of the same type and select one, how do I tell which map is selected? Q26. When overlaying base maps in a script how do you assign a label to each map? Q27. I've created a map with grid lines parallel to the axes, but the grid lines stop before reaching the opposite axis.

Q28. I used the drawing tools to add lines, rectangles and text to my map, but these objects don't move when I rescale the map with the Map | Scale menu. Q29. I downloaded DEM files from the USGS web site or from the GIS Data Depot, but Surfer fails to recognize the DEM file as valid. How can I load these files into Surfer? Q30. How are the default scale and other parameters calculated for the variogram model listed in the Grid | Data Scattered Data Interpolation | Options dialog? Q31. I have created a post map, but the points are close together and some of the labels overlap. Is there a way to manually move them around? Q32. How do I change the map coordinates in a DXF file within Surfer? Q33. Is there a way to calculate the Z value in the grid [.GRD] file at particular XY locations? Q34. How are the residuals calculated when the desired location does not fall on a grid node? Q35. How can I make the Surfer window visible when running a script? Q36. How can I load Surfer in a script using a different SET file? Q37. How can I load a new SET file in a script once Surfer is running? Q38. What gridding method should I use to grid my data file? Q39. What's the best method for gridding a data set consisting of digitized contours? Q40. What are the meanings of the parameters in a LVL file? Q41. Using the Surfer Scripter, how do I set the width and height of an exported bitmap (TIF, BMP, PCX, JPG) with FileExport( )? Q42. How can I create custom symbols for use in Surfer, Grapher, and MapViewer? Q43. I have invested in Adobe typefaces. How do I use these type faces with Golden Software products? Q44. How can I calculate the area between contours? Q45. When I grid my data file using kriging, it produces a grid file with negative Z values, or with values that go beyond the Z limits in my data file. How do I change this? Q46. How do I create a vector plot using Surfer? Q47. How is the default R-squared parameter calculated for the Radial Basis gridding method?

A. Yes, Technical Support is free to all users for as long as you own the product. You must register your product in order to receive technical support. You can reach technical support by phone, fax, or email. Q76. How do I import a TIF with a TFW world file into Surfer? A. Download the script TifTfwLf.bas from our ftp site. Run the Surfer Scripter program using the Windows Start | Programs | Golden Software Surfer 8 | Scripter menu command. Open the TifTfwLf.bas file and run it with the Script | Run menu command. You'll be prompted for the TIF or TFW file name. Surfer 8 Scripts ftp://ftp.goldensoftware.ws/public/scripts/surfer8/ Q77. How to I export a TIF with a TFW world file from Surfer? A. Download the script TifTfwExport3.bas from our ftp site. Run the Surfer Scripter program using the Windows Start | Programs | Golden Software Surfer 8 | Scripter menu command. Open the TifTfwLf.bas file and run it with the Script | Run menu command. Surfer 8 Scripts ftp://ftp.goldensoftware.ws/public/scripts/surfer8/ Q78. How can I export the information from a 1-grid vector map to an ASCII file? A. Choose the Grid | Calculus | Terrain Modeling | Terrain Aspect menu commands for the direction (angle), and Terrain Modeling | Terrain Slope or Differential & Integral Operator | Gradient Operator for the magnitude. For the Output Grid File, click on the yellow Open Folder icon , specify the File name, and change the Save as type to ASCII XYZ DAT or GS ASCII GRD. Home * Products * Gallery * Support * About Us * Register * Order * Demos * Sitemap Copyright 1997 - 2004, Golden Software, Inc. .
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