Surfer Beta Version History

Official version history and changelog information for the current version of Surfer Beta.

Surfer 32.0.198 (April 22, 2026)

Fixes

• Base(raster): 24bpp images that are reprojected lose their color
• DXF Export: contour labels at very edge of map are missing, instead of exported as polygons

Surfer Beta 32.0.194 (April 15, 2026)

Everything included in the 31.2.277 update

New Features and Improvements

• Add Comments: add to the bottom of the right click context menu
• Base layer import (vector): attributes in scientific notation that are >=1 (e.g. 0.1000000000000000E+01) are imported as Text instead of Numeric

Fixes

• 3D View: changing 3D Grid Filter can cause the contour slice level error "Too many levels, maximum is 5000"

Surfer Beta 32.0.163 (March 4, 2026)

New Features and Improvements

• 3D View: 
  • 3D Grid: Filter module (filter type, edge handling, nodata handling) for volume renders, block renders, isosurfaces, and contour and image slices
  • 3D Grid: apply up to 4 clipping planes
  • Drillhole: Open Drillhole Manager from the Drillhole layer Properties and context menu in Contents
  • Image slices: save slice as grid, save slice as image, and set the orientation to a polyline or polygon in a base layer or all polylines and polygons in a base layer
  • Contour slices: save slice as grid, save slice as image, and set the orientation to a polyline or polygon in a base layer or all polylines and polygons in a base layer
• Comments: add, display and edit comments for collaboration and instruction
• Legend: 
  • Base layer: add Legend entries for base layers that don't use symbology (Symbology is set to None)
  • Layers: option to display the samples for layers in multiple columns
• Update the user interface style

Fixes

• Internal Error when XYZC gridding anisotropy has invalid ellipsoid (CmdGridData.cpp)