I have never used the "Near field Setup", so I am not sure how that even works. It might be that you don't want to actually use that setup. If I understand you correctly, you just want to plot the e-field in a plane above the surface resulting from "scattered" field right? If you used a plane wave excitation, then this would be very easy (without "near field setup"). In that case all you would have to do is select "scattered" under "edit sources", then define a plane above your surface (a non-model sheet) and plot Emag on this surface in fields overlays. Whereever you define the plane will be where the e-field is plotted. What you are doing seems slightly different and I don't know what you need the "near field setup" for, so this may not apply and, again, I am not sure at all how the "near field setup" works...