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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.

Latest Builds: Windows: 2009-12, OSX: 2009-11b, Linux: 2009-12 Latest Betas: Windows: 2011-3, OSX: 2011-3, Linux: 2011-3

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Database storage

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. Multi-user SQL INSIGHT is coming soon (with MySQL introductory support).

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Why it is the best?

Insight-Live software for online recipe database management

Work with your recipe data on any web-capable device

This is really revolutionary! Do you need to renew? Do you need to upgrade? Go to Insight-Live now.

• Premier access is automatic if you have a current Desktop INSIGHT Level 2 key.
• It is 'industrial strength', it has its own cloud server, it is fast, secure and easy to use.
• You do not need to upgrade, it just keeps improving automatically as we evolve it.
• Import your data from GlazeMaster, Matrix, HyperGlaze, GlazeChem, INSIGHT, Excel.
• Export or backup everything (all tables and links) to an Insight SQLite file, photos to a ZIP file.
• Create and link typecodes, projects, firing schudules and define and use units-of-measure.
• Watch professional instructional videos to orientate and learn, use a support ticket manager for personal attention with problems.
• Site license keys can create a group, everyone the group works together to build a common data store.
• View many recipes side-by-side, classify and search recipes in many ways, store pictures, maintain a wide range of supporting data.
• Materials database and support for test procedures and data logging coming soon.

Insight-Live is designed to work well on iPad and other tablets and on iPhone, Android and many other smartphones.

It works on pretty well anything!
And it is available for a low monthly rate (and comes included with Insight Level 2 or Site License).

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 owners get extended access privileges.