How to get the SURFACE normal from line trace hit location?

Sorry if I misinterpret the question.

To get a vector perpendicular to the surface (the normal) of a hit object, you just have to add the impact normal to the impact point. As far as I understand the reason why is because the impact normal is a direction vector, so it could describe any number of parallel surfaces.

Below I make a little blueprint showing how using the hit result of an initial trace, a second trace can be done parallel to the normal at the impact position.

The result:

Hope this helps.

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