'Which Surfer Version.bas shows how to specify which version of Surfer to use to run the script.
'By default, Surfer will use whichever version was opened last on the computer.

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Sub Main

'Open Surfer 9 and use that instance to run the script
	Shell "c:\program files\golden software\Surfer 10\Surfer.exe"
	Wait 4
	Dim SurferApp As Object
	Set SurferApp = GetObject(,"Surfer.Application")
	SurferApp.Visible = True
	Dim Plot As Object
	Set Plot = SurferApp.ActiveDocument

'Declares MapFrame as Object
	Dim MapFrame As Object

'Creates a contour map and assigns the map frame to the variable "MapFrame"
	Set MapFrame = Plot.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName:=SurferApp.Path+"\Samples\demogrid.grd")

End Sub