--- title: Civil Designer Reviews meta\_title: 'Civil Designer Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Civil Designer works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 18 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Civil Designer Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Civil Designer but has limited features. Are you part of the Civil Designer team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/civil-designer/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! ⸻ Civil Designer is a top civil infrastructure design software providing an integrated, all-in-one suite for the planning, design, and analysis of complex civil engineering projects. The software combines bulk earthworks, roads and highways, surface drainage, wastewater systems, and pressurised water network design into a single, unified application. By consolidating multiple disciplines into one platform, Civil Designer helps engineering teams streamline workflows, reduce errors, and improve overall project efficiency. Civil Designer is built around a model-based civil design approach, enabling engineers to create intelligent 3D models from the earliest stages of a project. This allows for early clash detection between infrastructure elements, helping teams identify and resolve potential conflicts before construction begins. As a result, design rework is reduced, coordination between disciplines is improved, and project risks are minimised. Often evaluated as a strong alternative to Autodesk Civil 3D and Bentley OpenRoads, Civil Designer offers powerful functionality while maintaining flexibility and ease of use. Its comprehensive toolset makes it suitable for a wide range of infrastructure projects, including transportation corridors, land development, municipal services, and utility networks. The software supports Open BIM workflows, ensuring effective collaboration and data exchange across multidisciplinary teams. With advanced compatibility for IFC, LandXML, and 3D DWG formats, Civil Designer enables accurate interoperability throughout the project lifecycle. These open standards help future-proof designs and support informed decision-making. By delivering integrated infrastructure design tools within a single application, Civil Designer empowers civil engineers to produce higher-quality designs faster, making it a reliable and scalable solution for modern civil infrastructure projects. If you'd like to learn more about why engineering teams choose Civil Designer: https://www.civildesigner.com/why/ * * * Seller [Civil Designer International](https://www.g2.com/sellers/civil-designer-international) Discussions [Civil Designer Community](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-designer/discuss) Overview by Rod Harris (Technical Marketing) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Civil Designer. ### Specialized Design Suite Starting at €1,440.00 1 Seat Per Year [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-designer/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Civil 3D](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Civil 3D") Civil 3D 4.4/5(305) ](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-3d/reviews) [ ![MicroStation](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MicroStation") MicroStation 4/5(416) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microstation/reviews) [ ![Site3D](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Site3D") Site3D 4.5/5(36) ](https://www.g2.com/products/site3d/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-designer/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 18 real user reviews. 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From handling layerworks, alignments, drainage, and terrain data, to checking speed limits and design specs, it takes care of the whole road design process. What I really appreciated was how it even calculates cut and fill volumes for you, and lets you see your design in 2D or 3D with road markings and signs. It makes the project feel real. Tasks that would have taken me days by hand were finished in just a few hours. The help guides are clear too, which made learning the software much easier. What I like most is how everything you need is built into one program, instead of jumping between different tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? For a beginner, the learning curve is very steep. So proper training is needed, and thank you to the civil designer team who gave classes and notes on how to use the software. The software is quite demanding on the computer, but this is from a student's perspective. I am confident that there will be no issues once you have adequate computers in the industry. Overall, there was nothing that I disliked about Civil Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Civil Designer saves me time by combining everything I need for road design into one program. Instead of doing manual calculations for drainage, cut and fill, or alignments, I can finish the work in hours. It made my student project more efficient and gave a closer feel to real industry practice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Rachel B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rachel B.") RB Rachel B. Civil Engineering Student Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/13/2025 "An easy to use, multi-discipline tool" 4/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? What I liked most about Civil Designer as a first-time user was its integration across modules — being able to move easily between road design, drainage, earthworks, and hydraulics without switching environments. The cross-sectioning and stormwater tools were particularly helpful for the project I worked on, and the fly-throughs and visuals added an immersive touch that I really liked. I also appreciated the logical workflow, clean interface, and helpful support features, all of which made the overall experience feel polished and professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? There are a few limitations — for instance, the undo (Ctrl + Z) function didn't always behave consistently across modules, sometimes not working, or undoing more steps than intended. Another aspect that took some getting used to was the sheet file creation process, which felt a little less intuitive at first but became clearer after spending some time exploring it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? As a 4th year BEng student working on a road design project, Civil Designer helped me bring together several aspects of the design process in one place, from setting out road geometry and cross-sections to analysing stormwater flow and drainage requirements. It essentially solved the challenge of having to use multiple programs for different tasks, which made my workflow much smoother and more efficient. For me, it was also a great introduction to professional civil engineering software, giving practical insight into how road and stormwater designs are developed and assessed in real projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/29/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic OR Oliver R. Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/19/2026 "Extremely satisfied client." 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? An excellent support team that is always ready and willing to assist. Constant upgrading to the software to keep valid and ahead of the curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? I have worked with it for many years and to date I am yet to find something I dislike. This work and work well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Civil designer is a multi faceted civil engineering related software, road, survey and terrain, water and all integrate beautifully with each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Civil Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civil Engineering") UC Verified User in Civil Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/14/2025 "Civil Designer" 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? Civil Designer is a practical and easy to use civil infrastructure software that combines roads, earthworks, stormwater, wastewater, and potable water design in a single model. It brings together terrain modeling, alignment and corridor tools, pipe network analysis and automated quantities, so you spend less time exporting and fixing formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? No cross platform support and no multi user versioning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Civil Designer is a great fit when you need one model to drive roads, earthworks, and wet services on township layouts, municipal rehab projects, long rural corridors, drainage, sewer and water all update together with quantities and long-section outputs. It’s less appropriate for bridges or rail geometry, coastal hydraulics, advanced geotech or structural design. These are better handled in specialist tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shyquita M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shyquita M.") SM Shyquita M. Final Year Civil Engineering Student Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/27/2025 "Great learning experience using Civil Designer for my first road design project." 4/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? I really like how everything for road design is in one program. Once you get used to it, it’s easy to move between the terrain, alignment, and layer works without having to switch software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? At first, it was quite hard to learn how to use all the tools and menus. The layout can feel overwhelming for beginners, but after some practice it gets much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Civil Designer helps solve the problem of having to use many different programs for one road design project. It combines everything (from terrain modeling to alignment and layer works) in one place, which saves a lot of time and makes the whole process easier to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic MR Mauricio R. Senior Designer Civil Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/28/2023 "Software made by Engineers for Engineers" 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? Civil Designer makes design easy. It has powerful design and visualization tools that help develop the project quickly and with high-quality results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? Some data is not available or configurable to display on 2D plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Geometric design of highways, roads, intersections and access to bridges, design of storm drainage systems, design of drinking water systems, design of sanitary water systems and design of earthworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic SM Steve M. Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/12/2021 "Top Class Suite of design modules for Civil Engineers" 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? 1. Support and competitive pricing 2. Ability to handle large image tiles and elevation models 3. The software is constantly being updated with new and useful features - Knowledge Base listens to their users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? The stormwater, water and sewer modules can be improved. I would like to have more flexibility with importing/entering data into module databases for asset management purposes (condition ratings, structure images etc). Sheetfile creation and setting of information to be displayed is not simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Civil Designer: There are many video tutorials available and regular webinars demonstrating new features - watch them. Do a cost comparison of Civil Designer against other design software products. The cost of purchase and yearly support for Civil Designer is extremely competitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Apart from carrying out new designs, Civil Designer is useful for analyzing existing systems and determining service constraints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Civil Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civil Engineering") CC Verified User in Civil Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/11/2021 "Personal Review of Civil Designer" 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? Speed of software, design flexibility, accuracy and one software package for infrastructure needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? Some parts of the software are not the most user friendly and takes years to master such as sheet files but once mastered it's powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Civil Designer: To date it's the best design software I've used for Roads, Stormwater and Terrain modelling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Roads and stormwater infrastructure, time saving quick features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/14/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic GH Gideon H. Senior Civil Tegnologist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/2/2021 "It is user friendly, power full and it works the way you would do your design on paper." 5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? It is all integrated into one package from one software developer. You can see all the design entities in one design screen. I do not have to go and buy extra software to use it like Civils 3D. The developers of the software are always friendly and available to assist with queries. To get quantities for your design is just a click away. It can handle large digital terrain files with ease. The output that is compiled by Civil Designer is complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? Non except for creating large drawing files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Civil Designer: It is an all-in-one package (software and support). Easy to learn and help files are written simply. You do not need to buy other software to use it, like Civil 3D needs Autocad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Calculation of earthmoving quantities, fill and cut balance. Road design and construction plans and quantities. The design of municipal services and check if there are any clashes between the different services. Get the quantities for you the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Carlos Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Carlos Z.") CZ Carlos Z. Project Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/29/2019 "Reliable software for Civil Engineers." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Civil Designer? Civil Designer is a kind of an amazing tool which is also quite simple for the user to get used and this tool provides its users with many necessary features with very interesting functionalities. The product is well known for its great performance in various design visualization and also perfect in designing infrastructures projects. The user can still use this product in planning of drainage systems as well as tracing of water distribution installations in construction projects and other Engineering work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Civil Designer? Am satisfied with the performance of this software and i honestly don't have any single dislike on this friendly product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Civil Designer: Civil Designer is an excellent solution for quality Civil designs and also very friendly tool with a number of most useful features for Civil Engineering projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Civil Designer solving and how is that benefiting you? Simple designing and creating of different Civil Engineering designs like Roads and others, while promoting the company production through its quality services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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