How do I plot three 1-D vectors into a surface plot?

Hi everyone,
I have programming experience but am completely new with LabView.
I have data files that contain the same wavelength range on the first column, light intensities on the second column, and each new text file is at a different angle. The respective angles are written as headers for each file.
I've extracted wavelength, intensity, and angle into distinct 1-D vectors and want to plot them all on a 3-D graph.
I've tried using scattered plots in vector form, contour plots, plot3Dmesh, etc, and I've googled extensively and have found similar questions but no answers.
Does any one know where I can view specific examples or how to go about this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Michael
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Hi Joe,
Thank you! That worked. It enlightened me a bit more about shift registers as well.
The reason I'm taking both the angles and wavelengths from the same column is because the angles are the first value on the numerical header. The wavelengths (and intensities) all begin from row 3 so I just set the read from measurement file VI to start there.
There's one odd thing about the plot. Everything looks fine up until it hits ~340 on the wavelengths. All the angles are read and intensities for wavelengths between 260-340 nm. But the wavelengths range from 260-680 nm. I've been playing around with the shift registers insert into array functions, but I can't figure out what's stopping it from plotting the remaining intensity curves after 340 nm. I suspect it has to do with the number of times the for loop runs, but I thought the list folder files function took care of that. I tried wiring the file count output to N on the for loop but it didn't make a difference. Any thoughts on this?
Note: there are 176 angles, from 0-175. there are around 400 wavelengths, from around 260-680 nm.
Thank you so much!
-Michael

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