# OpenFlows WorkSuite Reviews **Vendor:** Bentley Systems **Category:** [Civil Engineering Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/civil-engineering-design) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 44 ## About OpenFlows WorkSuite Utilities and engineering firms around the world trust OpenFlows WaterCAD as a reliable decision-support capability for their infrastructure. Design new water systems and manage existing water networks effectively to reduce disruption risks and energy use. OpenFlows WaterCAD’s ease-of-use helps you successfully plan, design, and operate water distribution systems. ## OpenFlows WorkSuite Reviews ### 1. Easy to use and user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lovepreet S. | Civil Engineer - Project Designer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Its very easy and usefull software. User friendly interfaces. It calculates hydraulics calculations very quickly. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** As such there is disadvantage of this software except cross section view report can be optimized. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very beneficial for quick design of close conduits and open channels. Orifice size calculates verly quickly. ### 2. Useful sanitary Program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahmoud o. | Mechanical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It can create different models for sanitary systems with good amount of accuracy taking in consideration the losses through the system. Also, it helps in increasing information mobility through the project itself which leads to rely on the models results **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** You have to go through a lot of inputs, levels, and other variables to make sure to get the best accurate results, which is fine but it is somehow time consuming **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building Sewer models, creating profiles for pipe systems, checking manholes distribution, confirming adequate flow rate and pressure through the system. This program is really helpful with creating different scenarios which again, provide more accurate and realistic results ### 3. Water System Designing Product. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joyce W. | Graphic Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** OpenFlows WaterCAD is simple software and nice tool on water demand assessment and excellent water distribution systems optimization solution. The best thing its how the tool offers the user choices to use with AutoCAD and MicroStation and also the user can decide to use the tool as a stand-alone platform. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Nothing to dislike about the water system designing product, and its features are very simple to understand. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Amazing water supply networks systems designing, water demands assessing and very simple to start using. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy management of the existing water channels. Water distribution networks designing. ### 4. I have briefly used sewer cad as an intern **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany Q. | Civil Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I think it is extremely helpful for those that heavily specialize in hydraulic flow modeling. It cuts out a lot of calculation time as long as you are extremely familiar with all the calculations you would normally do by hand or another program. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** There's a huge learning curve. For advanced users that master all the features, this is very very time saving. I wish that there were videos/text that are created by sewerCad to tell you simple answers such as "how to find flow rate"... press this and that. It'd be helpful for a keyword search. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I think it would be very helpful to watch a lot of youtube tutorials first in order to understand advanced functions (if you already know the basics) first. I spent a lot of time trying to grasp the basics from youtube videos and that was time consuming in itself. I would hope Sewer cad has their own faster tutorial if possible. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It takes a lot of time to learn about the features unless you have a mentor sitting right next to you telling you what to press and why. If you are the mentor that understands every feature and how time saving the program is, it is useful. I think long time usage of this product makes sense. Since I only used it briefly, I spent more times watching hot to videos from bentley on youtube to grasp the fundamentals. Even that was a bit time consuming. Would SewerCad have their own faster tutorial course? ### 5. Intuitive, friendly UI and makes easy to build and manage hydraulic models **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Scenario management! This feature is sooo powerful! I used other softwares before, but I haven´t seen any that can handle multiple scenarios like the OpenFlows softwares. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It is not WaterGEMS. I really could use some of the Darwin Calibrator tools, maybe we could pay per use. It would be interesting! **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I do not have any recommendation. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am evaluating the economical feasability to improve waternetworks. How much resources are needed to built and operate it, and then make an assessment of the water tariffs and payback time. ### 6. Ingineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edmond G. | Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It is very professional software, it helps in calculating and design sewer systems. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Need to have more pipes in library and exporting data from another file format like dwg, shapefile or georeferencing emages.Also I would like to create an opportunity to be have ability to import kmz files from Google earth **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Is one of the best, it does veri well his job. Easy to use.Very very good **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pipe designs, manhole elevations, sections profiles, hidraulic parameters like diameters, velocity,pressures etj ### 7. Simple, Straightforward and Solid Sewer Design Aid **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cameron B. | Designer and Artist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** SewerCad provides ready to use calculators for all the typical design parameters involved in sewer design. These basic calculations, such as Manning’s velocity, are really easy to use and conveniently export into a report ready format. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It is great for addressing a few specifics pipes or features like inlets or orifices, however for a large system their doesn’t appear to be an easy way to develop a representation from a CAD file or otherwise, while the reporting is also less convenient on a system wide basis. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** SewerCAD keeps the workflow flowing steady by solving fundamental equations related to sewer design. Whether you need to achieve a certain velocity in a pipe or just want to know the flow rate through an orifice, you can iterate on design parameters easily, switching between set conditions without having to reset up your spreadsheet. ### 8. is the best modeling software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** modeling and designing of the sewerage networks became more easier with using sewercad program **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** it needs some modifications to create the profiles **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** i recommend infrastructure engineers to use SeweCad **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** analysis of the network is better, it is working with sewerage only not with drainage which also needs to be modified to be Able to work for both networks. ### 9. Best sewer design software with a smooth learning curve **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The auto design feature lets yoy select pre-determined sewer pipe diameters and offers multiple suitable scenarios that you can later tailer fit to your requirements. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** sometimes but not too often the programme would crash without giving the option to recover past work, such option would be much appreciated in the upcoming programme updates. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. ### 10. Quite perfect tool for water networks designing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjali G. | Civil Engineer, Construction, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Easy tool for the user to get started and they also offer short online tutorials for the new user to get used to the product without much struggling. This tool helps the users especially Mechanical Engineers in designing and even drawing of water channels or tracing of various installed water pipes networks. Provision of clear 3Ds and quite understandable, while saving the user a lot of time when designing or drawing Mechanical documents for different projects. The reporting capabilities of this tool is quite amazing. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Great product with high performance and so far no main complains on this tool usage. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Amazing Mechanical Engineering design tool with high performance in producing quality services in construction projects. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Producing of quality Mechanical Engineering documents or drawings for various water pipes installations within a given construction projects. ### 11. Excellent and powerful for drainage systems designing. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chayan K. | Sales Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Quite powerful tool with very high ability in production of quality drawings and plans for sewer systems in different construction projects. Simple product for the user to get familiar with and it has capabilities in accurate service provision, especially in Mechanical Engineering documents production. It gives the user the ability to quickly load elevation and it also support a number of different formats plug-in from other tools like AutoCAD, etc. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** No major issues regarding the tool usage and performance. Everything is good with this product. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Very powerful product for easy sewer or drainage systems designing and very easy tool to use. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating and designing of various quality documents for complex projects, like Mechanical drawings for different construction projects, especially in Mechanical installations or drainage systems designing. ### 12. I've have been working as project manager/ lead civil engineer (design) for infrastructures project. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The software is "User-friendly" and easy to learn even for beginners. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Sheet manager for printing work needs more improvement. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team has been using these software packages for water-related design work for long time. ### 13. Using it for my actual projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like the site layout of the pipe to anything you want **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Printing of pipe layout image is problem. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gravity to lift sta to forcemain analysis ### 14. WaterCad reorganizes and distributes your drinking system, a unique tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen R. D. | Human Resources Recruiter, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** His way of designing the plans in a 3D format leaves me more than satisfied, allowing me to do real evaluations, in terms of actual consumption of a locality, in this case the company allowed me to manage the supply of drinking water to employees , I like it because I also collaborate when making strong decisions, such as how should be the design within the infrastructure, I find it much easier with this software, it is great for drinking service. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It is usually a somewhat heavy and slow software when the internet is not flowing smoothly, I do not have any complaint about this product, but if some features could be clearer and less instuitive. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I recommend it to people who require a more thorough administration for the water supply in their companies. It is a quite complete and simple to implement software. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I collaborate in the redesign and modeling of the distribution of drinking water, for the own consumption and for the employees. ### 15. Important tool for stormwater designs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anacret M. | Civil Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Important tool for use in displaying your stormwater designs in a graphical way. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** There isn't any custom setting added scripts or commands you can input, but there isn't a need for that in this software. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** It's very easy to pickup. It's easy to miss entering data into every network property. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** By the use of this software we design all our stormwater systems. ### 16. A good program to organize the water supply for residents of an area. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy Sofiath S. | Project Engineer, Construction, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I love the way it generates and creates fluids, it is easy to implement, it reduces the time to draw how to install and install the pipes to distribute the water, with this software I can do everything digital, it served me a lot in a project of installation of water services, to a residencial set, and the program does it to perfection, and I even cost to implement it but its learning curve is simple and more when it is done by a specialist engineer, the system becomes more flexible. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It may be that when simulating the installation and how the system works, it slows down, and you have to close and reopen the program because it hangs, but your auto-save system supports everything in the cloud. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** If you are afraid of not knowing how to use this software, or it is the first time you try it, join is simple and easy to implement, and maybe a few introductory courses and handling would be spectacular, it is worth acquiring a software of this type I recommend it ! **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I contribute a lot to create a water distribution system from scratch, I collaborate in the saving of unnecessary costs when investing in materials that could be lost in the tests, because this software made the work to be done in the established time and the company has been able level up with respect to works and projects in the hydrological area. ### 17. Analyze and model a perfect water distribution system with WaterCad **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Betty D. | Manager, Biotechnology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like how it gives a detailed analysis of how to distribute water in an infrastructure, it helps me to reduce the risk of generating more expenses in the future, and risks of interruption and allows me to administer and distribute potable water to employees without any problem. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I do not like it because the software is something heavy, and has many features that at the beginning are quite complex to understand, you need a support with immediate response, as doubts arise every now and then, but even so it is quite reasonable software. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I think you should study well the case of investing in a program like this, because as its managers are bentley the software can be somewhat expensive, but it is an excellent product that helps reorganize, design and modify the water system of your infrastructure. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us to restore the potable water service for the employees' consumption, to reorganize and modify the way of distributing the water with quality designs, and in different departments of the company in a reliable and solid way. ### 18. Design of Large scale Sewer network is Made easy by Bently **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohana K. | Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Its very easy design tool can be used for any region globally. model building is very easy compared to any other mainstream sewer design software. Loading elevation or DEM surface is very quick and many formats of input can be used. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Zooming options and views of the software need little improvement **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** this is the handy software to design the gravity network very easily, only thing is the user must be aware of the basic civil engineering principals and particular client standard requirements such as min and max velocity, slopes, pipe sizes etc.. it can also design channels and swales. I would say it's a complete package to design and get the quantity of materials with fewer efforts and time. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have designed a complete network of more than 800km of sewer network using sewer cad software. the file sizes are very less and can be sent via outlook mail as an attachment very comfortably. various scenarios can be created based on client requirements such as fixed flow or pattern flow etc.. various peaking factors can be assigned to the same model, without creating many model files. ( single model can be used for different types of client requirements or different options.) one more big advantage is we can create various selection sets and design/ load the required input data to those selection sets alone. for each different scenarios reports can be generated separately and comparative study can be done. One more big advantage what I found is that the software can be used for both analysis and design mode so that the person who is reviewing the model can put the system in analysis mode and check for various options without disturbing the original model. ### 19. WaterCAD, The perfect tool for designing of water distribution system. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edger L. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Very easy to use WaterCAD in which it can be operated in both platforms, independently or within another product, depending on the user project. High ability in reporting of different result and can also used in creating of Fluid cad files. Its an excellent product in designing/planning of different water distribution channels, and even tracing of water installation on site. Availability of online tutorials which helps the WaterCAD new users more about the software and its the best in analyzing. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Only misbehaving when working on very big project files. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** WaterCAD its the best tool in designing of planning of water distributions. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Planning and tracing of water distribution channels and installations, among other benefits in different industries. ### 20. It is very efficient and user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thadshayeni U. | Thadshayeni Uthayan, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** This application is an excellent software to design the structure according to the requirement as well as maintaining the aesthetic appearence. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Not major things to be commented but some times it stucks during some complex designs **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** It will be more easy to learn if autocad is familier and the user should have a good knowledge about the software to obtain the optimum benefits **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has very accurate and powerful tools to make a perfect sketch. And design can be more eased as it has the ability to check the conditions and requirements. ### 21. Sewercad Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Sewercad was easy to use and train new city employee to use. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** There is nothing to really dislike about the program **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** It is easy to navigate **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to work with other city municipalities when we started using the program. ### 22. Stormcad Design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan M. | Staff Professional I, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Its a great tool to use for displaying your stormwater designs in a graphical way. Makes it very easy to generate reports, and display information for people without an engineering degree to understand the information conveyed. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The software is primarily run with a mouse. No command bar like typical bentley/autodesk products, so it can become tedious if you are designing a large storm network. Also note this means there isn't any custom settings/ added scripts, or commands you can input, but there really isnt a need for that in this software. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** It's really easy to pick up. Take time to familiarize yourself with the different network components that you can create and be consistent with the data you enter for each network piece. It's easy to miss entering data into every network property (pipe or catch basin etc) if you are not careful. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We design all our stormwater systems using stormcad. it allows us to run multiple rain events or peak water runoff events to determine if the system is properly sized. ### 23. WaterCAD, the software for hydraulic works **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** This software allows us to carry out the hydraulic simulation of a supply network of a locality and, in this way, to study at all times the consumption, possible losses of flow or pressure and in this way carry out the analysis of the network and find those points that have caused those losses. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Sometimes unstable and crashes. Some features not intuitive. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** The flexible tables in WaterCAD give the user an incredible flexibility in the configuration of tabular reports. The order and number of parameters, the width and text of the fields, the precision and the units are completely customizable. Additionally, with a simple right click it is possible to generate graphs and their association to the data for a better visualization of results. Similarly, with a simple Copy / Paste you can interact bi-directionally with spreadsheets in Excel ### 24. WaterCAD, Amazing Water Distributing tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah C. | Senior Account Engineer, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like the designing and planning ability of WaterCAD WaterCAD operation can be done in two methods. User can use this tool on its own, and at the same time, WaterCAD can be operated on another software. Creating of fluid cad files. It can also import other files. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** So far WaterCAD has been a great and reliable software for planning of water supplying project. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** For management scenario, i recommend this software since it has been working a great job especially for Mechanical Engineering. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modelling and designing of fluid systems. ### 25. Its a handy tool for water distribution network planning **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It's a very easy to use software for planning, designing, and operating water distribution networks. I like the fact that there are lots of online tutorials available to guide any beginner level designer. Further with their cloud based subscription, one can easily choose the licensing system that works well for the nature of the job. One can even choose to buy this either as standalone software or as part of another software such as GIS. Provides me easy options to compare multiple scenarios and aid decision making in real-time. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It is a heavy software and does sometime crash or take a lot of time to process if there are many operations running. The simulations may sometime take a lot of time but it is still pretty reasonable and i would recommend it. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I recommend it to try it out first. Watch the instructional videos accompanying it or take a 3 day refresher course provided by Bentley to become aware of the possible uses of WaterCAD **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are helping the utilities plan out their distribution system needs using waterCAD. It is super easy to use and allows us to run different simulations simultaneously making it eaiser for us to do cost-benefit analysis. ### 26. StormCAD a drainage designing tool. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veronica M. | Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The simplicity of this product is a amazing. Very easy to create a profiles. Though this you can trace your drainage sewer area. It also allows you to define hydrology. and i also like its visualization. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Not that easy to get used to StormCAD, but through training you can. The tool does not have export abilites to other tools like AutoCAD. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** StormCAD may be very useful especially on big firms which deals with Drainage installation and designing of drainage. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** StormCAD is very reliable tool when it comes to drainage designing, especially for Roadway drainage designs. ### 27. Was great.. Needs update. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The best thing about stormCAD would have to be its simulations. StormCAD can do simulations such as waterflow. This helps when visualizing drainage systems. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The user interface needs a serious overhaul. It needs to be modernized like the rest of the programs in this segment. Sometimes you wont know where to find stuff unless you already know where it was from using the software for sometime. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Update the user interface and you will be golden. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** You are able to use the simulations to test your products for weaknesses and areas that need to be redesigned before sending it to production. This saves a lot of time and money from the bottom line. ### 28. Good for Design **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Talapagala p. | Purushotham Reddy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Increases capacity to adequate service levels, supply clean potable water without interruption. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** very difficult to understand the working of this product **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** very good for planning **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** good for designing. ### 29. Ideal for sewer rehab projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Courtney B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I love the easy to use and powerful modeling capabilities for building and preparing very accurate and precise sewer models. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Just like normal CAD, this has crashed a few times on me and acted slow at times. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** This has so many features that you and your company will love. If you have any experience with AutoCAD, then sewerCAD will be a breeze. You will be able to catch on fast, and your clients will love the maps and plans you will create. If you are in the sewer rehab industry, than this is the software for you. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing my clients with the best possible drawings and plans for sewer systems. The powerful tools in this software allow me to accurately depict sewer layouts and plan for potential problems before they happen out in the field. ### 30. Watercad is best software for design the water supply system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Watercad is very useful to design water supply system **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I found that this software hasn't any dislikes **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** All user can't understand water cad so teach them. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** While designing water supply system project on watercad i clear my design,while others software doesn't ### 31. Watercad is best software for water analysis and design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The design way of software is quitly good, this is best to analyse and design the water. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The Software UI is not very user friendly, so that is difficult to understand the commands. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** water system is analyse by Watercad then its give cost effective. and minimum harrasement. ### 32. Water CAD **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Its pretty great at allowing users to create fluid cad files. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Importing files takes a bit of time as well as the simulations. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** As Mechanical engineers we need to model dynamic fluid systems. ### 33. Clunky Software with Limited Potential **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like best that it has a ton of great simulation capability. It can do simulations like water flow that other CAD cannot. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I dislike the clunky and honestly outdated user interface. It could use a face-lift in terms of modern design. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Recommend the tutorials to take full advantage of StormCAD **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to simulate tests on my products in StormCAD. This lets me assess their potential flaws or strengths prior to physical construction. ### 34. Design Engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The capabilities or the program are very diverse. Our company can do a wide range of design. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Some of the tools are difficult to understand how to use and take some time to learn. It would be nice if some of the tools were a little more straightforward and simple. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Take your time to learn how to use the features, **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detention design and it helps to shorten the design process. ### 35. Good design/evaluation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Many options for scenario runs and reporting for showing results. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Sometimes unstable and crashes. Some features not intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Do a trial of both this and InfoWater to see which is more intuitive and has best reporting options for your use. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instrumental in evaluating improvement options. ### 36. StormCAD Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelsey E. | Transportation Engineer I, Civil Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Very easy to use and learn, can design systems based on user-specified design constraints, will draw out drainage area for catch basins. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Automatic delineation of drainage areas often inaccurate. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Roadway drainage design. Allows us to quickly layout our drainage design and perform gutter spread and capacity calculations to meet parameters. ### 37. StormCAD is pretty fun **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like the profile feature it really helps me visualize my drainage systems **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It can be a little finicky at times but if you know what you're doing it's easy to troubleshoot **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storm Sewer mapping and design is pretty helpful in StormCAD, it's somewhat similar to Geopak drainage but not quite as funcitonal ### 38. Using stormcad to model closed drainage systems **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like the simplicity of it. Creating profiles and finding stats on the storm sewers is easy to do. And I enjoy being able to use it in MIcrostation as well. The project overall is effective at what it is billed at--sizing storm sewers effectively. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I wish things like spacing and the library catalog were more in depth. Some things like that in the program are almost 'too' simple. Having a greater library and being able to have a better way to space inlets would be helpful (like in Geopak Drainage where you can place a storm sewer on an alignment and the cross slope/profile slope automatically updates). I also wish it had an option to allow headwalls, as often there are culvert-type end sections connected to a storm sewer. This would help a lot to model the system as a whole. The project also tends to be buggy-much of the linework seems to be corrupted every once in a while, it's not something that makes it impossible to work with, but it does get annoying. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I would recommend understanding basic hydraulic and hydrological concepts before using. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm being able to correctly size storm sewers for closed drainage. Usually this is done on highway projects. I benefited from being able to do calculations via a computer program and not by hand. Generally however, a product such as Stormcad is required to submit calculations, so this is a software option to use. ### 39. Extremely Efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The product flows very nice and has very helpful tools for doing my job. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** It crashes sometimes at very annoying times. It usually has an auto save feature that is up to the second it crashed so i do not lose work very often. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I reccomend this product but i would consider an instructional course on it first. The product is great but it was very helpful to have been taught how to use the program in a hands on environment. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am detailing rebar for shop drawings. The program has allowed the transition from drawing to production to be seamless. ### 40. StormCAD review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** The StormCAD for Microstation, and how I am able to trace my drainage areas or sewers easily. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I wish the inlet spacing design would be a little easier. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** Use the Bentley community for help when needed. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drainage studies, storm sewer design ### 41. Novice StormCAD User **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I like that StormCAD allows you to define hydrology through catchments or at an inlet. I also appreciate the hydraulic modeling it conducts and that it is user friendly. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I wish that stormCAD had export abilities to both MicroStation and AutoCAD. I also wish that StormCAD allowed the user to take a predefined cell and define inlet parameters to calculate capture efficiencies. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 42. WaterCAD review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jialing Y. | Staff Engineer, Environmental Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** This software serves as a tool to give reliable and decision-making results about infrastructure. It can be operated in two different platforms, whether it stands alone or within another software, there is no problem. It also allows me to simulate a lot of different events and visualize the aftermath of an event, giving me results closer to realistic cases. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** There is nothing I don’t like so far with this software. **Recommendations to others considering OpenFlows WorkSuite:** I would recommend this for people who are looking for thorough results about how to manage a scenario; it is a great tool to study what-if scenarios. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to perform interface and graphical editing, building modeling, data connection and analysis, as well as analysis on energy cost. ### 43. Wonderful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** Ease of use. I am not always great at using different programs, but the transition has been easy with this program. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** I have absolutely no complaints about this. **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many benefits. I'm not sure what I have solved yet. ### 44. Good Water Modeling Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** User Friendly and good with AutoCAD Civil 3D. **What do you dislike about OpenFlows WorkSuite?** No dislikes so far, used it only for few months **What problems is OpenFlows WorkSuite solving and how is that benefiting you?** Water Modeling ## OpenFlows WorkSuite Discussions - [What is OpenFlows StormCAD used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-openflows-stormcad-used-for) - [What is OpenFlows WaterGEMS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-openflows-watergems-used-for) - [View OpenFlows WorkSuite pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/openflows-worksuite/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+10%3A22%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4da0d014-50e9-46f7-804b-72470e74a0b1&secure%5Btoken%5D=32df26fec17d4152ebee97b50d6e3289278282d128992c558cea1ef605683677&format=llm_user) ## OpenFlows WorkSuite Features **Plan** - Documentation - Sequence - Annotate - Collaborate **IoT Capabilities** - Process Automation - Security - Safety - Environmental Conditions - Resource Optimization - Analytics **Design** - 3D Modeling - 3D Rendering - Drawing - Editing **Agentic AI - Smart Utilities** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Construction** - Fabrication - Reinforcement - Clash Detection - Grading - Earthwork **System Management** - Security - System Monitoring **Engineering** - Hydraulic engineering - Hydrologic engineering - Transportation engineering - Structural engineering ## Top OpenFlows WorkSuite Alternatives - [Civil 3D](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-3d/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (288 reviews) - [GeoHECRAS](https://www.g2.com/products/geohecras/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (347 reviews) - [ZWCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/zwcad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (347 reviews)