--- title: AVEVA E3D Design Reviews meta_title: 'AVEVA E3D Design Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AVEVA E3D Design works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 20 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # AVEVA E3D Design Reviews **Vendor:** AVEVA **Category:** [Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mechanical-computer-aided-design-mcad) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About AVEVA E3D Design AVEVA E3D Design offers class-leading productivity and capabilities while retaining seamless compatibility with other AVEVA Engineering and Design solutions including AVEVA Unified Engineering. ## AVEVA E3D Design Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users highlight the **simple, easy-to-understand interface** of AVEVA E3D Design for creating 3D models effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of integrating existing plant designs** and effective teamwork capabilities of AVEVA E3D Design. (1 reviews) - Users find **BOM Management** in AVEVA E3D Design invaluable for effective skid preparation and accurate project costing. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy CAD integration** in AVEVA E3D Design, enhancing collaboration across different locations. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of collaboration** in AVEVA E3D Design, facilitating teamwork from various locations effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users find **Detailed Engineering Drawings** invaluable for skid preparation and project costing, surpassing traditional 2D layouts. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simple and easy-to-understand interface** of AVEVA E3D Design for creating 3D models. (1 reviews) - Sharing (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simple and easy-to-understand interface** of AVEVA E3D Design for 3D modeling in engineering projects. (1 reviews) - User Interface (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that the **learning difficulty** of AVEVA E3D Design requires training, even for experienced PDMS users. (2 reviews) - Users find AVEVA E3D Design **too complex for beginners** , posing challenges even for those experienced with PDMS. (1 reviews) - Users find AVEVA E3D Design **difficult for beginners** , posing challenges even for those with prior PDMS experience. (1 reviews) - Users find AVEVA E3D Design **difficult to learn** , posing challenges for both beginners and experienced PDMS users. (1 reviews) - Users feel that the **cost is a bit high** , making it challenging for beginners to adopt AVEVA E3D Design. (1 reviews) - High System Requirements (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , posing challenges for both beginners and experienced PDMS users alike. (1 reviews) - Training Required (1 reviews) ## AVEVA E3D Design Reviews ### 1. Helps to design complex industry project. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ANIKET K. | Process Intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** Can integrate with other tools design can be done fast with the help of automation. Can design complex 3D drawings. it will help to create drawing with accuracy **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** difficult to use for new user. some lacking issues are coming while using. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiple user can do same project work. it save the time for manual data transfer ### 2. It is 3d modeling of piping, structures. It is user-friendly, it ensure design accuracy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** It is 3d modeling of piping, structures. It is user-friendly, it ensure design accuracy, checks clashes, generate drawing **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Tool and setting customization is challenging. Setting up a license might be difficult. Connecting to other software is difficult. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Errors in manual drawing are decreased by employing clever 3D modeling. This feature automatically identifies conflicts between pipelines, equipment, and structures. When the model changes, drawings are automatically updated. automates time-consuming processes, such as creating drawings. Increases design correctness and decreases on-site rework. ### 3. Best tool for complex engineering projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamlesh M. | Account Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** Easily recognises equipments for accurate specs. It minimizes the error with the help of automated class detection **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Hard for beginner. The licence is expensive. Minor glitches **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's seamlessly connects the data of design and engineering and it also supports multi users ### 4. it is a good platform that helps us and flexible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krutika G. | Telecom intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2025 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** For beginners it is easy to use, detects the mistakes, is accurate, user friendly **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Specifically for industries, customization is less **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in designing, if any mistakes then we can do changes easily, flexible ### 5. Beneficial for Design Engineers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Namrata P. | HR Intern, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** I can integrate existing plant design very easily
can do team work even from different places
I use this to design most of the time **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** not easy for beginners
cost is a bit high **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** helps to make less mistakes
more than one user can work together
very collaborative ### 6. My Review for AVEVA 3D **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suyog S. | Graduate Apprentice Trainee, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** IT have highly detailed and accurate 3D modeling for plant, Centralized data model, real-time collaboration, built-in clash detection. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Require good hardware for performance, Expensive license Cost, Crashes sometimes. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speeds up the projects timelines, Faster response to the design changes. Reduces risk while construction. ### 7. its good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** koushik m. | intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** it has a good accessibility of tools and user access **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** It requires high end system or good computer, requires good graphic capability, High license cost **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improve accuracy
enhance visualization
enables realtime collaboration ### 8. BEST FOR PIPING **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanif P. | piping engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** BEST SOFTWARE FOR PIPING DESIGNING AND EASY TO USE ALL FEATURE WERE EASILY ACCESSIBLE **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** DISLIKE IS ONLY SOMETIMES HEAD AND TAIL GLITECHES WILL OCCUR. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** AVEVA E3D I USED FOR PIPING DESIGN IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ### 9. aveva e3d review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prathamesh s. | intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** advance 3d modelling capability and easy to use and multiple discipline collobaration is good. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** powerful hardware required more expensive license inconsistent interface **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** help to catch issue in early design stage ### 10. AVEVA E3D - EASE OF USE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan G. | Senior design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** AVEVA E3D IS BEST SOFTWARE FOR CREATING COMPLEX 3D MODE FOR ITS EASE OF USE **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** NEED MORE 3D EXPORT FORMATS FOR ALL INDUSTRY RECOGNIZES SOFTWARE. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** IT SOLVES ALL COMPLEX PROBLEM ### 11. Efficient for plant designing and good visualization tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vipul K. | Intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** Good design capability and good integration with engineering activities **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Complex interface and expensive license as compared to other softwares. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can coordinate with other discipline users
Gives accurate data. ### 12. Review for aveva e3d **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham W. | Customer service, Logistics and Supply Chain, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** Enhanced 3D Modeling, Cloud-Based Collaboration **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Steep learning culture, High system requirements **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inefficient design processes, collaboration challenges ### 13. Avena E3D Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omkar P. | Graduate Apprentice, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** It is enabling efficient accurate modeling **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** complexity make it less suited for simpler design **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is Enhancing collaboration, improving accuracy ### 14. E3D Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2025 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** enabling accurate drawings and reports generation, which helps in reducing project costs and timelines **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** First-time users also need training to navigate its interface and features **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** 3D design and engineering in the process plant ### 15. Efficient 3D Design and Collaboration with AVEVA E3D Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** AVEVA E3D Design provides a wide range of advanced tools and features for creating intricate 3D models. From intelligent piping and equipment modeling to structural design and electrical routing, the software offers comprehensive, highly realistic design capabilities that cater to diverse industry requirements. AVEVA E3D Design promotes collaboration by facilitating the coordination and clash detection of multiple disciplines. The software's clash detection capabilities help identify and resolve clashes between different design elements, minimizing rework and enhancing design integrity. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** AVEVA E3D Design, being a powerful 3D design software, demands substantial system resources and hardware specifications. Organizations should ensure that their hardware infrastructure meets the recommended requirements to ensure optimal performance and user experience. AVEVA E3D Design is primarily designed for complex projects, and its extensive feature set may be more suited for large-scale projects rather than smaller or simpler design tasks. Organizations with less complex design requirements may find some features of the software to be more advanced than necessary. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** AVEVA E3D Design facilitates effective collaboration among multidisciplinary teams. By providing clash detection and coordination capabilities, the software enables seamless collaboration between different disciplines, reducing design conflicts and enhancing project coordination. With its realistic visualization and rendering capabilities, AVEVA E3D Design helps designers and stakeholders visualize and understand complex designs more effectively. This enhances decision-making, reduces design errors, and allows for better communication throughout the design and engineering lifecycle. ### 16. E3D: The best 3D plant design software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anup Kumar D. | Senior Piping Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2023 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** It's simple, easy-to-understand interface for creating 3D models for engineering projects. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** First-time users need training to use the software. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating 3D piping and equipment models with excellent graphics. ### 17. User review for aveva E3D design module **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niraj S. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic Review from User Profile:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** 1. The plant engineering design and fluent representation of 3D modelling is best in business. 2. Smooth cooperation within various departments is possible with a single database. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** 1. Larger areas consume more time to load and update in the design module. 2. More options need to be updated in the toggle list menu. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of person-hour wastage in the design rework in the detail engineering phase has been reduced vastly due to the introduction of Aveva E3D software. It helps to deliver the outputs to the client. ### 18. Aveva E3D Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthikeyan R. | Senior Instrumentation and Control Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2022 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** Modeling of Pipelines and Field Instruments, Spec for Bore Modification. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** If more equipment and Pipelines are added, the System get an error and goes to shutdown. **Recommendations to others considering AVEVA E3D Design:** This software is good for Oil & Gas design engineering, modelling the Pipeline and cable trays routing. Easy to create equipment and pipelines and Specification and Catalog can be used based on customer requirements. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clash detection check, design check and production checks. ### 19. Best plant design 3D Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** User friendliness. Many options to view, model, route pipes. Attach lfd model. Fast and easy to use **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** Unexpected error handling error sometimes and unsaved work gets deleted **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used to route pipes, attach components, instruments. Check clashes and view model as a whole ### 20. Efficient tool for making Piping and HVAC schematic diagram of plant layout. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SudhaRSHAN R. | Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about AVEVA E3D Design?** It's beneficial in skid preparation and Bill of material for procurement and project costing; it is not possible by conventional 2d layouts. **What do you dislike about AVEVA E3D Design?** More complex for learning the beginner and even those with experience in PDMS. **What problems is AVEVA E3D Design solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preparation of structure and pipe racks are convenient. Extraction of the bill of material. Extraction of isometrics. ## AVEVA E3D Design Discussions - [What is AVEVA E3D Design used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aveva-e3d-design-used-for) - [Projects drawings to transfer from Draw Module to CAD format](https://www.g2.com/discussions/projects-drawings-to-transfer-from-draw-module-to-cad-format) - 1 upvote - [View AVEVA E3D Design pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aveva-e3d-design/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-10-03+20%3A17%3A05+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5debc528-ade3-4ecc-b431-e76a1d08bc8b&secure%5Btoken%5D=9d6f3b4d9be72cf130775b5e3080d5cd27b93ab048da87fe535dc25e1dbe1477&format=llm_user) ## AVEVA E3D Design Features **Design** - Drawing - Modeling - Visualize - Rendering **Tools - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Rendering Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Text Editing Tools **Design & Modeling - Plant Design Management Systems** - Rules-Based Design - Structural Design - Component Library - 3D Modeling **Edit** - File Import - Push/Pull - Views - Grips **File Options - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Export Files - Import Files - File Interoperability - Backwards compatibility - File size **Simulation & Optimization - Plant Design Management Systems** - Virtual Validation - Digital Twins - Virtual Tour - Processes - Process Simulation - Plant Simulation **Collaboration** - Annotate - Documentation - Data Extract **Customization - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Custom Commands - Custom Scripts - Custom Menus - Custom Interface **Data Management - Plant Design Management Systems** - Integration - Data Types - Import and Export - Insights **Additional Functionality** - API - Image Editing - Activity Dashboard - Animation - Reference Management - Secure Data Storage - Third-Party Integrations - Configuration Management - Annotations - Drag & Drop - Data Synchronization - For 3D Printing - Customizable Templates - Modeling & Simulation - For Manufacturers - Multiple Format Support - Workflow Management - Version Control - Document Management - Sketching and Annotation Tools - Multiple Projects - For Architects - Content Library - Bill of Materials Management - Collaboration Tools - Design Management - Rules-Based Workflow - Reporting/Analytics - Data Visualization - Generative AI - Data Capture and Transfer - Projections - AI Copilot - Real Time Comparisons - Document Generation - Component Library - Compliance Management - Customizable Branding - File Management - Real-Time Updates - Configurable Workflow **Environment - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Hardware support - Task-based interfaces - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top AVEVA E3D Design Alternatives - [AutoCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,904 reviews) - [AutoCAD LT](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad-lt/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (281 reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (682 reviews)