Contour Maps

With Surfer you can add color fill between contours to produce dazzling displays of your maps, or produce gray scale fills for dramatic black and white printouts. Creating publication quality contour maps has never been easier!

Contour Map Features

• Automatic or user-defined contour intervals and ranges
• Control over contour label format, font, frequency and spacing
• Automatic or user-defined color for contour lines
• Color fill between contours, either user-specified or as an automatic spectrum of your choice
• Save and retrieve custom line styles and fills for contour maps
• Full control over hachures
• Regulate smoothing of contour lines
• Blank contour lines in areas where you don't want to show any data
• Rotate and tilt contour maps to any angle
• Add color scale or distance scale bars
• Independently scale in the X and Y dimensions
• Full control over axis tick labels, tick spacing, grid lines and titles
• Create any number of contour maps on a page
• Output maps as DXF, HPGL, EPS, CLP and WMF file formats
• Print maps in black-and-white or full color
• Overlay base or post maps on contour maps
• Drape contour maps over 3D surfaces for dramatic displays

Surfer Features

Contour Maps 3D Surface Maps Post Maps Base Maps Gridding

Map Overlays Macro Language Worksheets Additional Utilities and Features Version 7 Additional Features

System Requirements:
PC running Win95/98 or Windows NT 4.0, or higher, 21 MB of free hard disk space, 12 MB RAM minimum, 32 MB or higher recommended, 800 x 600 minimum monitor resolution