Insight Glaze Software

What is INSIGHT?

The way glazes fire is more closely related to their chemistry than any other factor. INSIGHT handles the calculation mechanics of converting recipes to formulas and back (a recipe shows a glazes materials, a formula shows its oxides, its chemistry). The main INSIGHT window shows two side-by-side recipes and their formulas. This enables you to make chemistry changes to one while seeing the original beside it. INSIGHT provides information that teaches you to think in terms of the function of each oxide in a fired glaze and to relate changes you make to a glazes chemistry to what happens in the fired glaze. Soon it becomes easy to deal with almost any situation by adjusting the glaze recipe.

• Runs identical on Mac OS8/9, OSX, Windows, Linux
• Compact, fast, and highly interactive calculation environment
• Side-by-side recipes with independent calculations
• Side-by-side target/limits formulas that can be edit/created as recipes
• Interactive formula-to-batch calculations
• The program itself is a single file, there are no dlls or auxiliary files
• Customizable oxides and materials databases
• Recipes, materials and oxides are stored in XML format files
• Notes and multiple pictures with notes can be entered for each recipe
• Analysis, mole%, unity/non-unity formula calculation types with LOI support
• Conditional unity, ratio, oxide and recipe level calculated properties
• Multiple thermal expansion number sets
• XML import and export for data from ceramicmaterials.info
• Links to ceramicmaterials.info for formula, material and oxide information
• HTML reports with templates and links to oxide and material information

INSIGHT was first released in 1979 and has been used world wide since. It is an excellent teaching tool for demonstrating the principles of formula/analysis/unity, limit formulas, LOI, and material-oxide relationships.

A full feature list and free trial download from the DigitalFire website can be found here.

After checking out Krueger Pottery, Inc. will email you a password to download Insight from the Digitalfire Website. We will also mail you a copy of your password certificate and receipt with no shipping cost.