Thank you for replying.
I performed a bunch of iterations of the same calculation in excel that vary three parameters (the X, Y, and Z in the plots). I thought I might be able to develop a better contour plot in mathcad, given Excel's plotting is so bad. My mathcad is hack at best, and calling myself a novice user is generous. Thanks for embedding the table, its easier than the help file made it out to be. The plot is set up already with height Y as a function of X and Z
The axes are labled differently because when I was fooling around with the contour plot, I didn't realize I could change the axis of the contour lines from the dropdown in the properties window, so I changed the data on each axis.
What did you do to "turn off" the contours that go beyond the end of my data? There is a remnant but nothing MS paint cannot fix