New Surface Document command
How to create a new surface document...
- Open or create a scrollsheet in which the data you want to plot are stored as a surface variable.
- Select New Surface Document from the File Menu.
- A dialog box appears. Press the Help button if you need instructions on how to fill in the dialog box fields. Fill in the fields that are not grayed or accept defaults and press Ok to continue. Or press Cancel to abort.
- Wintrack will create the document and display it on screen as the
active document.
A single surface document can only plot data from one surface variable. If the active scrollsheet contains more than one surface variable, Wintrack will create as many different surface documents as necessary to plot all the variables.
Note: plotting the content of tables that do not contain surface variables
Even though primarily designed to visualize surface variables, the New Surface Document command can also process tables that do not contain surface variables. When doing so, Wintrack creates a surface document in which each tile represents one cell of the source table. Tiles that correspond to table cells that are empty or contain text will remain blank.
Related commands...
Scrollsheets that contain surface variables can be created suing the Analyze Case command. Once a surface document has been created, you can use the Save Surface Document or Save Surface Document As commands to save the surfaces to disk for later retrieval using the Open Surface Document command. The Print Surface Document command lets you print surface documents on a printer or copy them to the Windows™ clipboard as graphics. The Surface Properties command let's you change the color scheme and the scale of the active surface document.
Additional information...
- See New Surface Document dialog for details on the associated dialog box.
- The equivalent macro statement is explained in New Surface Document statement.
- There is a toolbar shortcut to create a new surface document.
- Inside surface documents provides advanced information.
- See Creating and using macros to learn how to use and create macros.
- Keyboard Shortcuts gives an overview on keyboard shortcuts.
- Using the Wintrack toolbar gives an overview of toolbar shortcuts.
