Whether you’re modeling plume behavior, mapping geological boundaries, or showing how multiple subsurface features interact, incorporating contact surfaces into your visualization can make all the difference between confusion and clarity. During this webinar, Surfer Pro Drew Dudley will introduce Surfer’s brand-new functionality for creating contact surfaces directly from drillhole data in the 3D View.
During the webinar, you’ll see how this feature equips you to stack lithologies and other horizons across drillholes with ease—giving you powerful insights into how geology could influence contamination, mineralization, and more. Drew will also give you relatable, real-world examples of practical applications and techniques of this new feature so you can use it to boost clarity and drive informed decision-making.
This free webinar is perfect for:
- Environmental professionals, hydrogeologists, remediation specialists, engineers, geologists, and geophysicists
- Anyone who values delivering results that are clear, impactful, and stakeholder-ready
- Professionals looking to sidestep the steep price tag of additional 3D modeling software
Chapter Timestamps
0:00 | Introduction
1:30 | Webinar Housekeeping
2:53 | Going over what will be covered
5:23 | Creating contacts from drillhole data
8:08 | Visualizing lithology from USCS codes
13:18 | Lithology in the 3D View
16:16 | Creating lithology surfaces from contact soil codes
23:06 | Editing the lithology surface properties
29:26 | Save lithology surface grids
36:11 | Bring the 3D lithology surfaces into the 2D project
37:45 | Setting the coordinate system
41:16 | Create and add profiles
43:48 | Calculating volume between lithology surfaces
46:29 | Generating isopach maps
48:35 | Sharing your project with stakeholders
51:07 | Sharing your project with all stakeholders by exporting to 3D PDF
53:46 | View the 3D PDF Export
57:07 | Wrap up
Q&A Timestamps
32:27 | For the Boring Lithology excel file, what do the USCS values equate to?
33:43 | Does Surfer project a surface through a drill hole that does not have a lithology in it?
56:07 | For the Surfaces, do you need to load in every single contact option you see in your data set, or just include the range of all the USCS codes you're using like you showed?
Additional resources for the webinar
- What is Surfer Beta and how can I participate?
- Related articles and webinars
- Create a Drillhole map in Surfer
- Surfer Drillhole Manager Tool Tip Video
- Surfer Drillhole Maps Training Video
- Create a 3D Drillhole model in Surfer
- 3D View: Use Text Keywords as Interval Data for 3D Drillholes (e.g. for lithology)
- Export models from Surfer's 3D View
- Tackling the PFAS Crisis with Surfer (Webinar)
- Surfer help pages for features mentioned during the webinar
- Gridding resources
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