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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
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Digitalfire Desktop INSIGHT Overview Part 2
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Entering Shrinkage/Porosity Data Into Insight-Live
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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
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Insight-Live Quick Overview
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Replace Lithium Carbonate With Lithium Frit Using Insight-Live
Replacing 10% Gerstley Borate in a clear glaze
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Signing-In at Insight-live.com
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Subsitute Gerstley Borate in Floating Blue Using Desktop Insight
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Thixotropy and How to Gel a Ceramic Glaze
Use Insight-live to substitute materials in a recipe
Using Recipe Libraries With Desktop Insight

Enter a Recipe Into Insight-live

Learn how to add a recipe, title it, add lines and change them, set lines to added status, deal with unrecognized materials, enter notes and pictures and print a mix ticket

A. Insight-live

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Start with an empty account at Insight-live.com.
Click the Add button in the recipe manager.
Click the blue Edit button in the recipe panel and name the glaze Cone 04 Glossy Blue and save it.
Add a recipe line: Gerstley Borate, 50. Click Done Editing.
Click show chemistry. Click the Gerstley Borate and compare the materials chemistry with the calculation chemistry in the recipe.
Click Edit again and add 3 more lines: EPK 30, Silica 20, Cobalt 1.
Click Done Editing and not the red footnote warning that a material was not recognized.
It is the cobalt.
Search cobalt in the materials manager to find the proper name.
Edit the recipe and fix the cobalt and check the chemistry.
Edit again and click the Show More Options link. Set the cobalt to phantom status (not participant in the chemistry) and click the Added checkbox.
Click the Notes edit button and enter a note and close and save that panel.
Note where to upload a picture.
Print a mix ticket for 1500 grams without showing the chemistry.

Links

Glossary Insight-Live
A cloud-hosted ceramics-targetted LIMS (lab info management system) enabling collection, organization and learning from data to develop, adjust and study their recipes, materials and processes.
Glossary Glaze Recipes
Stop! Think! Do not get addicted to the trafficking in online glaze recipes. Learn to make your own or adjust/adapt/fix what you find online.
Media How to Paste a Recipe Into Insight-live
If your recipe is on the clipboard, this shows you how to import it into Insight-live and make adjustments after.
Articles Can We Help You Fix a Specific Problem?
There are lots of resources here to help yourself, but if necessary I can help you individually.
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