Design to Your Own Rules

Your office already works to rules the code never spells out: your own deflection limits, your qualified details, the wording your reports have used for years. Store them in Dlubal CALC and answers follow your practice, naming the document and the section they came from.

Build Your Knowledge Base

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Define How Your Office Works

Every design office carries rules the code never explicitly states. These include the deflection limit you apply regardless of the annex minimum, the connection details you have already qualified, the material grades your fabricator actually stocks, and the wording your reports have used for fifteen years.

Store that body of practice in Dlubal CALC and it becomes the reference the answers draw on. The numbers still come from the calculation, and every answer names the document and the section it followed. Company Knowledge sets which assumptions, limits and wording surround those numbers.

SET UP YOUR STANDARDS

Qualified Details & Typical Solutions

Connection details already checked and approved, standard node types, and the specific bolt preloads, sections, and steel grades your fabricators actually supply.

Past Projects & Precedents

Calculation reports, technical notes, and the decisions behind them. You can ask how you solved a specific issue last time and get an immediate answer linked directly to your past project files.

Report Templates & Wording

The structure, terminology, and phrasing your printout reports use. A generated document reads exactly as if your office wrote it.

Without Company Knowledge

The code answer

“EN 1990 recommends L/250 for quasi-permanent deflection; your national annex may set a stricter value. Confirm the limit with your project specification.”

With Company Knowledge

Your office answer

“Your internal standard sets L/350 for office floors with rigid partitions — stricter than the annex L/250. Applied to this beam: 17.1 mm allowed, 15.8 mm computed. Source: Design Guideline 04, §3.2.”

Without Company Knowledge

A valid detail, from scratch

“An extended end-plate with two bolt rows in tension works for this joint. To EN 1993-1-8 you'd need roughly a 20 mm plate with M20 8.8 bolts, or 15 mm with M24 10.9. Both satisfy the code — which arrangement would you like me to verify in detail?”

With Company Knowledge

The detail you have already qualified

“Use SD-12 from your Connection Catalogue, sheet 12 — your qualified end-plate for IPE 300 to HEB 240, M24 8.8. Verified for this joint: moment utilization 0.78, shear 0.41. Note that 10.9 bolts aren't in your approved set, so I've left them out.”

Managing Your Knowledge Base

A knowledge base is only useful if you can keep it organized. Upload your existing documents, and Dlubal CALC automatically prepares them for use. Every asset has a visible status you can change, keeping you in full control of what’s active.

Support for Every Format: Upload your data exactly as it is. Dlubal CALC natively supports PDF, Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX), PowerPoint (PPTX), CSV, Plain text, Markdown, and HTML.

Canonical Assets: You have full control over what information takes precedence. Mark specific documents as canonical to establish them as the team's authoritative source. Mia will always prioritize these files in knowledge searches.

Smart Tagging & Organization: Add custom tags to your knowledge assets to keep everything neatly organized by project code, material type, or workflow status.

Transparent Processing: Track the exact indexing status of every file. Once an asset is marked as active and ready, Mia immediately incorporates it into your structural analysis chats.

Scoped to your organization

Your knowledge base serves your workspaces only. It is never used to answer anyone else, and it is not training data.

Traceable to the document

Answers name the internal document and section they relied on, so a reviewer can check the source rather than trust the phrasing.

Updated when your rules change

Replace a guideline and every answer from then on follows the new version. One place to maintain, instead of a change that has to reach everyone individually.

Assigned per workspace

Assign a knowledge set to the workspaces that should use it. Different teams can work to different rules under the same account.