Questions about Insight-Live.com

[Kabe Burleson]

Hi everyone. I put some Questions about how to use parts of Insight-Live on the comment wall, so I will not add them here. I thought it might be nice to have a spot where we could just write out our questions when they arise. That way George and Tony will have a heads up on what some of us are wanting to know. That would help them to plan the next web-cast.   If someone else knows the answer, they could post it and that would take some of the burden off of George and Tony. I am sure the same questions are repeated often.  Solutions that are known by others, could be shared with newcomers. I hope this is all right.

[George Lewter]

Kabe Burleson's 5 Questions. 

I logged onto Insight-Live and went to the first two recipe you entered; Ga28 and Sapphire Blue.

1.(Who or what is  RR?) -- Ans. Ron Roy

2. The first one, Ga28,  shows the ratios but the second one does not. Why? -- Ans. Both recipes have unrecognized material ingredients. The second recipe has no recognized source of alumina, so it can't give you an silica:alumina ratio. ANY RECIPE WITH UNRECOGNIZED MATERIALS WILL GIVE INCORRECT UNITY AND CHEMICAL FORMULAS.

3. Are there pictures and if there are how do I get to them? -- Ans. You should see any existing pictures for a glaze recipe when you preview or open the recipe.

4.  If pictures are added I assume it would have to be done by you. If someone else wanted to add a picture to this file, say this glaze on a different claybody or done at a different firing schedule could that be done and noted? That is if there was a marked difference. --  Ans. Yes that is a central point of our group database. You can add your pictures and notes to any group recipe. But please make sure to identify yourself in whatever you add. 

 5. If I hit "report" will it print this recipe as shown? -- Ans. It will unless you change the total amount in the text box next to the "Batch" button. You can enter any batch size that you want to mix, and the report will be generated proportionally changing all ingredients to produce a batch of glaze of the specified total.

[Kabe Burleson]

Thank you George for the answers.  I will head back into Insight- live and look some more. For me it is nice to have the answers posted. It easy to forget one answer when you go on to the next thing you are doing. This could turn into sort of a solutions manual. Thanks again Happy firing

[Kabe Burleson]

Another Question. I asked permission of another artist if it was alright to use her claybody recipe for some glaze test tiles.  I got the recipe from someone who attended one of her seminars and I was not sure if the claybody was public information. It turns out it is on her website. It is a white cone 6 that looks like porcelain. She was gracious enough to say yes. While I was on her website she has a 11 page "field Guide" about Pottery. Nice piece of work. This includes a large body of glaze recipes. I am not sure if they are all cone 6 but she fires at cone 6 so I assume that some of them are. I know that when you put a recipe into the Insight Data base that you can note where it came from so credit can go to where credit is due. Happy firing Kabe

Is it possible to add a llink so people could go to the source of the information or is that a bad idea?

[George Lewter]

Add some descriptive information and post your link here. And there is another page of external resources where you can post the info and link. 

You cannot make working html links in the notes of Insight-Live but people can cut and paste the address into their internet browser to go your source's website. 

[Kabe Burleson]

Thank you George for the help, again.

[Holly Kilpatrick]

Here are two questions -- not sure if I should start a new discussion, or put this under the one Kabe started.

1.  What is the relationship (similarity/difference) in functionality between the Insight-Live that we have here, and the Insight software that can be purchased and installed on our PCs? 

2.  I am coming from GlazeChem, which can only run on XP and I only have an old netbook running XP, so I've really got to get updated to something supported.  So I am trying to learn about Insight.  In GlazeChem, we had a functionality I used a lot, "Find Similar Glazes" and you could click on a glaze, and say find similar by oxide %, by molecular %, by materials, and other options.  It was so helpful when you got a "new" glaze recipe and you wanted to see if you really already had almost the same glaze with another name.  Is there anything like that in Insight?

Thanks,

Holly

[Kabe Burleson]

There are people more Qualified to answer this than I. But I will share the little that I do know. I have The digital fire software and I am in the insight group. On my home version I can go into my glazes and just call up just my cone 6 glazes or I can call up just my cone 10 glazes. I can enter the word Rutile and it will show me all the glazes that contain rutile or any other material. I have a base I use and I vary the oxides for different colors. If I remember to put the name (base 101) in my note section about a glaze all I have to do in enter base 101 in the serch spot and I will have all those glazes. I am not farmilial with Glaze chem. Digital Fire has a out of this world Material data base. You got a question say about Cobalt you go to the data base and it will have a page or two of information, pictures. I do not know if it will do all that you want. I think you can even transfer reciepe from one software to another so you do not have to retype all of them into a new recipe index. George or Tony would know for sure. Happy firing.

[Donna Kat]

I am cleaning up the batch I added and came across an analysis that I knew to be wrong. It is a 5X20 glaze (called butterscotch original in batch5).  It has it as low in silica.  I first saw that the frit was not being identified so I edited the file and change the line from frit 3110 to ferro frit 3110 and on saving it then say the material but the Si2O3 is still way lower that I know it to be so I checked with my own insight and it is way off.  All of the materials are being recognized.  Thought someone should know

[Kabe Burleson]

Thank You Donna for posting this. Infact during the last Insight live web cast George,  Wes, Katherine and myself talked about having a page where users could share information about changes that are made in the data base so everyone will know whats happening. It could be a place to ask about glazes and report possible mis cues. The web casts are really interesting. Have a great day

[Donna Kat]

Please bear with me.  I corrected some of my errors on the upload of glazes.  I am leaving the last upload (batch4) until I can figure out an easy way to replace "^6 Glazes" with C6G but will delete and replace as soon as that is done.  I had accidently uploades twice and that duplication (batch5) is deleted.  If the batch is too much of a hog, please delete. 

[Donna Kat]

I am just getting use to the online version of insight but it is different in many ways from the personalized version since it is meant for a group and is limited in scope.  You can download Insight for free and try it out for a month.  I think it is an excellent program and for me works better than all the others I have tried. 

When you open a file you can filter or sort by several different parameters (file name, code number, type, glaze material, etc).  It shows 2 files at a time so you can easily copy one glaze into the other column and change either ingredients of amounts to produce another recipe.  So say that I did not have whiting but I did have wollastonite.  I would copy the glaze using whiting and then set that amount in the new glaze to 0; add wollastonite and tweek the amount of it and silica to match the original glaze in the unity formula.  Some of Insight is still a bit foreign for me - I am just now learning how to delete files from the data base.  The Data Base is a file you should keep backed up by the way in case you do accidently delete something you wanted but even if you do, it does not delete the recipe file you created so you can import it again if needed.  The recipe files are kept in a folder called recipe so this too should be backed up. 

Clayart has a great many files that can be imported into Insight and I have the zip file or could find the link if you want it.  There are a few things that are not immediately intuitive and that I have done incorrectly (so codenumber I used to indicate ^6 glazes and that is not how it was meant to be used).  Much of it though is quite easy to use and the longer I use it and learn it the more I like it.

[Donna Kat]

Please do.  Thanks, Donna