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INSIGHT software for ceramic glaze chemistry calculations

Desktop INSIGHT for Windows, Linux and Macintosh: Understand ceramic glaze chemistry

There is a direct relationship between the way ceramic glazes fire and their chemistry. INSIGHT is a calculation tool anyone can use to learn and harness the power of ceramic chemistry.

• Fix problems like crazing, blistering, pinholing, settling, clouding, leaching, crawling, marking, scratching, powdering.
• Substitute frits or incorporate better, cheaper materials, replace no-longer-available ones (all while maintaining the same chemistry).
• Adjust melting temperature, gloss, surface character, color.
• Identify weaknesses in glazes to avoid problems.
• Create and optimize base glazes to work with difficult colors or stains and for special effects dependent on opacification, crystallization or variegation.
• Create glazes from scratch and use your own native materials in the highest possible percentage.

Without ceramic chemistry you'll never really have control and you could be a slave to the textbook recipe culture or suppliers.

Download: Windows, OSX, Linux

(you must login to download).

The fastest, smallest, most reliable cross platform database is built into INSIGHT: SQLite. INSIGHT still supports reads and writes all legacy format recipe files using a standard file open/save dialog. Still using INSIGHT in file system mode? It is time to upgrade/renew to get the benefits of database storage and upload to Insight-Live.com.

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Why it is the best?

Insight-Live works online. Recipe database management in your own account.

Insight has moved on-line! This is really revolutionary! It may be time to renew/upgrade your Insight to get access. Login and check pink box above.

• Premier access is automatic if you have a current Desktop INSIGHT Level 2 or Site License key.
• Login to a private account or work with others in a group account (e.g. university).
• Nothing to install (access it using your web browser). It is always the latest version.
• Easy to import your existing data (GlazeMaster, Matrix, HyperGlaze, GlazeChem, INSIGHT, Excel).
• Export everything to an SQLite database file you can open with desktop Insight.
• As many side-by-side recipes as you want.
• Many ways to search and classify glaze and body recipes.
• Glaze and body recipes are robust, with units-of-measure, unlimited pictures with individual titles and descriptions.
• Add variations to a recipe; each with its own pictures, descriptions and name/code-number extensions.
• Recipes can link to typecodes, projects and firing schedules (all managed in their own areas).
• Standard reports and mix ticket reports with last-minute-totalling; variations report as if they are a complete recipe.
• Video tutorials, help system, contact form on every page, dedicated messaging and support ticket systems.
• It is an industrial-strength database system (unlimited capacity, fast, reliable, scalable).

On the iPad!

It works on any browser-equipped tablet or smart-phone (like iPad, iPhone, Android).

And it is available for a low monthly rate.

The Digitalfire Reference Database, the Power Behind INSIGHT

Digitalfire's Reference Database is a materials-centric knowledgebase of 4,000 pages and 11,000 interlinks with everything you need to know to formulate, adjust and troubleshoot traditional ceramic bodies and glazes (and there is no advertising on the pages!) It is the online focus for all of our ceramic technology information gathering initiatives. Its knowledge spectrum for adjusting, formulating and troubleshooting glazes and bodies is organized as: Oxides, minerals, materials, recipes, articles, glossary, hazards, library, MDTs for INSIGHT, pictures, properties, firing schedules, significant temperatures, tests and troubleshooting. Records in these areas are interrelated by 10,000+ links. The website talks to Level 2 INSIGHT and Insight-Live. Insight Level 2+ owners get extended access privileges.