A Basic Understanding of Surfer Gridding Methods – Part 1 ...
A Basic Understanding of Surfer Gridding Methods – Part 1. Surfer offers many different grid based maps, such as 2D contour maps and 3D surface maps. To create a grid based map, you must have a grid file. To create a grid file, Surfer takes randomly spaced XYZ data and uses it to create a regularly spaced grid file, composed of grid nodes.