Web and geo data
Two tools reach outside the conversation, and both are worth understanding because they cost credits and because their answers are only as current as their source.
Geo data
Ask about a location and Mia can fetch the zone data for it: snow, wind, seismic, climate and altitude.
Geo Zone Tool has no global switch in Settings. It is available whenever your sign-in and plan permit access, and Mia calls it only for a matching question. Availability alone does not cost anything. A failed lookup is not billed either.
Which snow load applies for a roof in Passau at 400 m altitude, and which zone is that?
Billed once per chat turn, at 2 credits, no matter how many of the underlying lookups run for it. Asking for snow and wind in one message is one lookup, not two.
Web search
Web search has three settings in the message bar:
| Setting | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Auto | Mia decides whether the question needs it |
| On | Search is forced until you change the setting |
| Off | The tool is not offered until you change the setting |
A search costs 1 credit when it runs. Off is the setting to use when you want an answer
from the knowledge base and the model only, with no outside source in it.
On is worth reaching for when the question is about something recent: a product release,
a changed regulation, a supplier's current range. Auto is conservative by design and will
often answer without searching.
The knowledge base has the same three settings
Auto, on and off, applied to the Dlubal Knowledge Base rather than the open web. This is the user control for that source, and there is no additional MCP switch in Settings. Off is a real off: the tool is not offered, so the answer cannot quietly come from a standard you did not want consulted.
What this means for an answer you will sign
A web result is a web result. It is not a standard, it has no citation into a document you hold, and it should not end up in a report as though it were a rule.
Do not let a web search stand in for a national annex. If the value matters, ask for it from the knowledge base or check it yourself in the standard.
Where to go next
- Citations for what a source reference does and does not claim.
- Plans and credits for the cost of each lookup.