# 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. ## 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/openflows-worksuite-review-1253075?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-22+19%3A04%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b86b706b-16f9-4b0f-8c13-6d6ff21c0ff2&secure%5Btoken%5D=f4f101afc3285b2db8a8f5b8ed9f5b6d5af495794fb8e98f79f6fbfca9578dec&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)