Plotting Cross Sections
To display the location of the slice for the cross section on a map, use the Home | Create Layer | Base | Base (Data) command and create a base map from the slice line vector file used for the cross section.
Profile Line Projected onto the X-Z Plane
In Surfer use the Home | Create Layer | Post command to plot the actual cross section projected onto a specific plane. To plot the cross section, column C, the Z value, is plotted as the Y coordinate. Plotting column A as the X coordinate and column C as the Y coordinate produces a profile line projected onto the X-Z plane.
Profile Line Projected onto the Y-Z Plane
In Surfer use the Home | Create Layer | Post command to plot the actual cross section projected onto a specific plane. To plot the cross section, column C, the Z value, is plotted as the Y coordinate. Using column B as the X coordinate and column C as the Y coordinate produces a profile line projected onto the Y-Z plane.
Profile Line Showing True Accumulated Distance
Use the Output BLN to create a profile with the Home | Create Layer | Base | Base (Data) command. The Output BLN produces a profile line that shows true accumulated distance along the boundary line.
Alternatively, to create a profile from the Output DAT data file, in Surfer use the Home | Create Layer | Post command to plot the actual cross section projected onto a specific plane. To plot the cross section, column C, the Z value, is plotted as the Y coordinate. Using column D as the X coordinate and column C as the Y coordinate produces a profile line that shows the true accumulated distance along the boundary line.
To create more elaborate cross sections, we recommend Golden Software’s Grapher program.