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March 18, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

Use AI to Chat with Your Apps, Run Calculations, and Retrieve Data

In this blog, you will learn how to build AI powered apps and how to extract insights from your documents, so you can have a smart assistant inside your VIKTOR app that helps you find key information faster, answer questions about technical files, and reduce manual work.

March 17, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

Build better Autodesk Apps in VIKTOR with Smarter Prompts

Learn how smarter prompts can help you build better Autodesk apps in VIKTOR. This guide shares three practical prompting techniques for working with Revit data, filtering model information, and building faster engineering workflows.

February 26, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

How to Easily Connect you VIKTOR App to your Engineering Software

This guide explains how to use the VIKTOR worker to connect engineering software APIs to your web application. Using ETABS as an example, we walk through app setup, worker configuration, and execution so you can automate repetitive engineering tasks efficiently.

February 25, 2026

by VIKTOR

What's new in VIKTOR (February 2026)

In this February update, we introduce app sharing in the App Builder, a built-in debugging console, improved App Store visibility controls, batch archiving, and faster publishing with .viktorignore. These updates help engineering teams collaborate, test, and release apps more efficiently.

February 23, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

Prompting Guide: Turn Your Excel File into a Structural Web Application Using AI

Excel is the backbone of structural engineering calculations, but it limits collaboration, visualization, and automation. In this hands-on prompting guide, you’ll learn how to transform your existing spreadsheets into interactive web applications using AI. Convert a column interaction diagram and a response spectrum calculator into shareable tools with reporting, visualization, and export capabilities.

February 18, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

The Future of Structural Engineering with VIKTOR AI

In this blog, we explore how AI is reshaping structural engineering. From generating engineering apps directly from a PDF to orchestrating deterministic footing design workflows with AI agents, discover how VIKTOR combines reliability with automation to help engineers work smarter and faster.

February 10, 2026

by Alejandro Duarte Vendries

How to Automate Base Plate Design Using AI: Prompting Tutorial

Base plate design is repetitive, critical, and still often done in Excel. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to turn a traditional base plate workflow into an interactive web application using AI, with live visualization, calculation logic extracted from engineering documents, and automated reporting you can share with your team.