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3D Print a Test of the Beer Bottle Neck
3D Printing a Clay Cookie Cutter-Stamper
A 3-minute Mug with Plainsman Polar Ice
A Broken Glaze Meets Insight-Live and a Magic Material
Accessing Recipes from "Mid-Fire Glazes" book in Insight-Live
Adjusting the Thixotropy of an Engobe for Pottery
Analysing a Crazing, Cutlery-marking Glaze Using Insight-Live
Compare the Chemistry of Recipes Using Insight-Live
Connecting an External Image to Insight-Live Pictures
Convert a Cone 10 Glaze to Cone 6 Using Desktop Insight
Create a Synthetic Feldspar in Insight-Live
Creating a Cone 6 Oil-Spot Overglaze Effect
Creating Rules for Calcium Carbonate - Wollastonite Substitution
Design a Triangular Pottery Plate Block Mold in Fusion 360
Desktop Insight - Difficult Formula to Batch Calcuations
Desktop Insight 1A - Compare Theoretical and Real-World Feldspars
Desktop Insight 1B - Turn a Feldspar Into a Glaze
Desktop Insight 1C - Substitute Wollastonite for Whiting in Glazes
Desktop Insight 2 - Creating a Matte Glaze
Desktop Insight 3 - Dealing With Crazing
Desktop Insight 4 - Add a Native Material to MDT, Build a Glaze
Desktop Insight 5A - Glaze Formula to Batch Calculations
Desktop Insight MDT: Adding a Material
Desktop Insight: Maintain an MDT as a CSV File in Excel
Digitalfire Desktop INSIGHT Overview Part 1
Digitalfire Desktop INSIGHT Overview Part 2
Enter a Recipe Into Insight-live
Entering Shrinkage/Porosity Data Into Insight-Live
Getting Frustrated With a 55% Gerstley Borate Glaze
How I Fixed a Settling Glaze Slurry Using Desktop Insight
How I Formulated a Cone 6 Silky Matte Glaze Using Insight-Live
How to Add Materials to the Desktop Insight MDT
How to Apply a White Slip to Terra Cotta Ware
How to Paste a Recipe Into Insight-live
Importing Data into Insight-live
Importing Desktop Insight Recipes to Insight-live
Importing Generic CSV Recipe Data into Insight-Live
Insight-Live Meets a Silica Deprived Glaze Recipe
Insight-Live Quick Overview
Liner Glazing a Stoneware Mug
Make a precision plaster mold for slip casting using Fusion 360 and 3D Printing
Make test bars to measure pottery clay physical properties
Making ceramic glaze flow test balls
Manually program your kiln or suffer glaze defects!
Mica and Feldspar Mine of MGK Minerals
Predicting Glaze Durability by Chemistry in Insight-Live
Preparing Pictures for Insight-live
Remove Gerstley Borate and Improve a Popular Cone 6 Clear Glaze
Replace Lithium Carbonate With Lithium Frit Using Insight-Live
Replacing 10% Gerstley Borate in a clear glaze
Signing Up at Insight-live.com
Signing-In at Insight-live.com
Slip cast a stoneware beer bottle
Subsitute Gerstley Borate in Floating Blue Using Desktop Insight
Substitute Ferro Frit 3134 For Another Frit
Substituting Custer Feldspar for Another in a Cone 10R Glaze Recipe
Substituting Materials by Weight: Why it does not work!
Substituting Nepheline Syenite for Soda Feldspar
Thixotropy and How to Gel a Ceramic Glaze
Use Insight-live to substitute materials in a recipe
Using Recipe Libraries With Desktop Insight

Digitalfire Desktop INSIGHT Overview Part 1

Part one of a complete tour. The anatomy of the recipe window, how to open, edit and save recipes; the materials, oxides and supply oxide dialogs, the MDT.

D. Desktop Insight


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Start here. Learn to download and launch it, the anatomy of the recipe window, why side by side recipes are important, how to use the Recipe database window to find and open recipes and targets, how side by side recipes work, how to edit and move lines, opening the Materials dialog at a recipe line material, researching a material and its chemistry, the Edit Recipe Line area, phantom and static status for recipe lines, the Supply Oxide dialog, entering recipe materials using the Materials dialog, the button bar, saving a recipe, duplicating a recipe, working with the formula list and its controls, the Oxides dialog, the Materials Definition Table (MDT), researching oxides.

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Glossary Digitalfire Insight
A downloadable program for Windows, Mac, Linux for doing classic ceramic glaze chemistry. It has been used around the world since the early 1980s.
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