Recipe to Analysis
Recipe Box
Materials or recipes can be dragged from the Material List Window
or the Recipe List Window and dropped into this recipe box
(located on the far left). The material drag icon or recipe drag icon must be placed over
the position required in the recipe box, unless it is below the last entry, in which case
it will be placed immediately below the last entry. The analysis will be displayed in the
far right column of the window in either an Ultimate
Analysis or a Unity Formula . This will
depend on the Percentage/Unity/Absolute option selected at the bottom right of this Tab
sheet. The Change Oxide Window will open if you drop a
material which includes an oxide not currently displayed.
It is possible to change a material in the recipe box by dropping a new one into that
position (useful when you want to see what will happen to the analysis if you just change
one material for another).
To use an amount with a fraction of a unit, click on it (next to the material name) and
key in the amount. The analysis will only be updated when you hit the return key and the
corresponding check box is unchecked (see Below). Any other unlocked materials will change
accordingly.
Note: The Recipe Box is disabled for the other tab sheets, i.e. you can only change the
material amounts in the Recipe to Analysis tab sheet.
Recipe Check Box (Alt + Z)
The amount of each material can be locked or unlocked by clicking on the corresponding 
check box or typing 'Alt + X'. A tick
(checked) indicates that the amount is locked.
Recipe Slider Bar
By clicking on the right-hand arrow 
of
a slider bar, the amount of that material will increase by 1 unit (percent) while any
other unlocked material amounts will decrease by an equal fraction. In other words if
there are two materials unlocked, the other material will decrease by 1 unit, while if
three are unchecked, the other two will decrease by 0.5 units each. To change in
increments of 5 units click on the slider bar between the arrow and the slider. See High
Resolution (below) for different units.
Insert and Delete Buttons (Alt + N) (Alt + L)
At the bottom left there are the 'Insert' and 'Delete' material buttons. To insert a
material, first highlight the material where a space is required and then click on
'Insert'. To delete a material highlight it and then click on 'Delete'.
Fixed Entry, Total - 100 and Total - 200
By selecting 'Fixed Entry' from the pull down list, the amounts of a each material in the
recipe box can be typed in without any calculation being performed. Once the recipe is
typed in, click on 'Total - 100' to convert the recipe amounts to percentages.
'Total - 200' allows the total amount of materials in a recipe to go above 100. When
matching a glaze's Ultimate Analysis using
'Absolute' (See below), a recipe total must be more then 100 to compensate for the loss on
Ignition. For example, a hypothetical recipe requiring 100 CaCO3 would need
approximately 178 of Whiting (Chalk).
Total and Cost
The materials 'Total' and the recipe 'Cost' are displayed directly below the recipe box
amount column.
High Resolution (Alt + H)
The check box to the right of the Total puts the recipe sliders into high resolution,
allowing small changes of 0.01 in the recipe amounts.
Coefficients
The selected coefficients in the drop down list (bottom right) are used to calculate the
coefficient of the recipe which is then displayed to the immediate right of this drop down
list. To select the default set of coefficients open the Coefficients
Window and click on (highlight) the required set, then close the window.
Ultimate, Unity and Absolute
The Ultimate Analysis of a glaze is
displayed by default. For the Unity Formula or
Absolute click on the appropriate line in the drop down list.
K+Na, K+Na+Li, Fluxes and Si/Al
Different subtotals of oxides in the glaze analysis or the Silica to Alumina ratio can be selected for
display in the box immediately to the right of this drop down list.
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