Surfer Version History

Updated September 11, 2024 05:00

Official version history and changelog information for Surfer, currently version 28.

New Features and Improvements:

3D View:
- bounding boxes can be created around axis extents, volume renders, or isosurfaces
- copy format/paste format
- navigation triad can be displayed in any corner of the window
- opacity option was added to isosurface, vector contours, and drilhole colors when using the Fixed color method
- orthographic projection was added, to view the model in either perspective or orthographic projection
- preset views (top, bottom, north, south, east and west) were added to easily view model from different perspectives
- Vector Data: export 3D geometry to (BLN, CSV, DAT, DXF, SEG-P1, SHP) as 3D geometry with Z values per vertex
Drillhole Data Import: Worksheets: warn when there are potential data errors (ie. Start>End or From>To)
Export PDF, WMF, EMF: remove export scaling properties since they are not applied
Frame Templates included in the Samples folder
User Interface was updated with keyboard shortcuts, updated icons and organization to be consistent with Grapher

Fixes

3D View: Environment: water level XY extents did not include Sliced volume render
3D View: smooth lighting incorrectly placed on 2D Grid Surface when grid extents don't match map extents
Base from Server uses incorrect Lat/Long extents when decimal separator is comma
Base from Server: the Legend image wasn't readable in some cases
Crash exporting to JPG
Crash in 3D view when export to PDF
Crash when export to a PDF(raster)
Crash when starting Surfer
Import ECW: files from the UK government for year 2020 were not recognized
Internal Error when loading a grid data settings file with invalid settings into Grid Data (MinimumCurvatureGridder.cpp)
Layout: Distribute: distributes outside the margins when Align to Margins is selected
Viewshed: Add to Map command was not disabled properly

Updated September, 2024

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