# Octave Forte Isogen Reviews **Vendor:** Octave **Category:** [Other CAD Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-cad) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Octave Forte Isogen Isogen is the world's leading solution for the total automation of piping isometric drawing production and is the Hexagon PPM standard system for drawing piping isometrics. Isogen is bundled with Intergraph Smart 3D, PDS, CADWorx, CAESAR II, and SmartPlant Spoolgen and SmartPlant Isometrics ## Octave Forte Isogen Reviews ### 1. It works, But **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave H. | Sr. Piping Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** What I like best is it works is about all I can say for it. Extracts what you put in your model. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** I don't like the error reporting, You have to have a touch of Sherlock Homes, Bill Gates and Jesus coving your back to figure out why an Isometric won't run, Also it draws the ugliest Isometric. I am from the old school, where drafting was an art. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Haven't know Isogen to solve any problems, I have been using it since it came on the market ### 2. Isogen can be used in CADWorx CAESAR II Integraph Smart Isometrics Intergraph Smart 3D **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** koka v. | QC Inspector, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** It has all features for designing and online support 24/7 **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** It only works on Saas.it dosenot work on windows, mac, linux **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem in design can be easily solved..stress analysis etc ### 3. very user friend software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** very intelligent, useful software in oil & gas industry **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** there is no such option to dislike this useful software. **Recommendations to others considering Octave Forte Isogen:** recommended **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can get different setting for isometrics such as stress/fabrication with complete MTO. ### 4. Isogen-A Quickly Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** It creates a complete drawing when executed the run. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** One and only thing is break of drawing, when there is a mismatch in routing ports. **Recommendations to others considering Octave Forte Isogen:** Highly recommended to use. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** 100% of manual ballooning in piping isometrics is eliminated with the help of Isogen. And BOM provision is a reliable Feature. ### 5. I think, Isogen is good for 3D isometric **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** The software is a user friendly. I think it is easy to navigate for the beginners. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** I am not so knowledgeable about this software. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. Because I am using Intergraph SmartPlant P&ID. I realized, Isogen is also good for 3 D Isometrics. ### 6. Makes the drawing of piping isometrics effortless **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** Easy and straightforward integration into AutoCAD via CADWorx **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** It can take a while to learn all of the features available to you **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Isogen was used to help me design the piping for a heat exchanger ### 7. it works but requires setup and self learning **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** I can create isos in batches, quick and easy. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** some limited functions, lack of help material **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some problems are setting the drawing area limit. Sometimes the isometric goes out of boundary. The benefit is creating drawings is fast and easy. ### 8. Isogen swift **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** The easiest way to extract multiple isometrics. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** They were consuming time while extracting isometrics depends on the dense of iso. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extractng slow depends on dense of isometrics. ### 9. Can be too smart **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** Time can be saved when set up correctly. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** I cannot find a way to get text into iso style **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to re-run Iso's after a small modification to model. ### 10. PPM is perfect solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** The usability of the product and the efficiency **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** Not a single thing.. it's is user friendly **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's less time consuming ### 11. 3D Plant design engineering. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** I like isometric drawing production with clever symbols and easy to customize the option setting. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** The default option style is not applicable. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Isometric drawing extraction. With good productivity. ### 12. Powerful Isometrics, Clunky Settings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph Z. | Lead Piping Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** Isogen makes good Isometrics. I find that it can usually do what I want it to, and is customizable in the ways that I need it to be. It is integrated well with CADWorx, and I can usually quickly add any customization to a component quickly. I see that the program is being developed and efforts are being made to make the user experience better. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** I find it difficult to navigate the settings. I don't find I-Configure user friendly at all. It is clunky and not intuitive. I also find my results as I generate isos to be inconsistent. It has gotten better in this regard from years ago, but it is still frustrating how inconsistent the output can be. Also, I would like to see a more user-friendly error screen when an error is encountered. I see a big wall between those who are familiar enough with I-Configure to efficiently set up templates etc. and users who know what they would like the iso to come out like. Much is lost in translation. A feature that is definitely missing as well is a built in ability to use line list info to populate the title block info. **Recommendations to others considering Octave Forte Isogen:** Isogen is, in my experience, the industry standard isometric generation software. Using and becoming competent with the program is a very big plus on your resume, as well as it will keep your value to your company high during slower times. **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing the customization of isogen to efficiently batch produce isometrics that don't need any retouching. The time savings when doing this is significant, and we can cut down our time per iso by 25%-75%, depending on the complexity of the piping systems. ### 13. Piping fabrication using 3D models **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ted S. | Piping Design Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Octave Forte Isogen?** It generate isometric drawing for pipe fabrications with bills of material. **What do you dislike about Octave Forte Isogen?** Nothing you have to have it. It’s good software **Recommendations to others considering Octave Forte Isogen:** It works really well with CADWorx **What problems is Octave Forte Isogen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It works really well no big problem. ## Octave Forte Isogen Discussions - [What is Isogen used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-isogen-used-for) - [View Octave Forte Isogen pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/octave-forte-isogen/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-01+18%3A05%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=da277c0e-af49-4e2e-b800-3f5c6e94fc39&secure%5Btoken%5D=d85d0cdbf5722c6816a534c9a3055a3db5bc7dd6d83430d2637ea458ba5675e4&format=llm_user) ## Top Octave Forte Isogen Alternatives - [Ansys SpaceClaim](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-spaceclaim/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (56 reviews) - [Simplify3D](https://www.g2.com/products/simplify3d/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (41 reviews) - [PTC Mathcad Prime](https://www.g2.com/products/ptc-mathcad-prime/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews)