--- title: OpenFlows WorkSuite Reviews meta_title: 'OpenFlows WorkSuite Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 44 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenFlows WorkSuite works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 44 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # 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. 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 ### 2. 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? ### 3. 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. ### 4. 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. ### 5. 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. ### 6. 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. ### 7. 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. ### 8. 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. ### 9. 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. ### 10. 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 ### 11. 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. ### 12. 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. ### 13. 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. ### 14. 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. ### 15. 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. ### 16. 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. ### 17. 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. ### 18. 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. ### 19. 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 ### 20. 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 ### 21. 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. ### 22. 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. ### 23. 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?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+00%3A01%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=22af611b-b9c2-4ca0-8755-7619829a0c60&secure%5Btoken%5D=0ac251818cf62fb60bbf5b5baef786b9acdbdb83e9a2b688b3eda916904e4a64&format=llm_user) ## OpenFlows WorkSuite Features **Additional Functionality** - Repair Tracking - Customer Database - Asset Tracking - GIS Integration - Mobile Access - Customizable Reports - Compliance Management - Timesheet Management - Generative AI - Data Import/Export - Audit Trail - Permit Management - Fleet Management - Customizable Fields - Budgeting/Forecasting - Document Management - Job Costing - Task Management - Historical Reporting - Customizable Forms - Maintenance Scheduling - Inventory Management - Project Management - Workflow Management - Contract/License Management - Real-Time Updates - Activity Dashboard - Fixed Asset Management - Equipment Tracking - Real-Time Reporting - AI Copilot - Service Request Management - Collaboration Tools - API - Code Enforcement - Self Service Portal - Inspection Management - Employee Management - Reporting & Statistics - Multi-Location - Calendar Management - Work Order Management - Equipment Maintenance - Facility Management - Alerts/Notifications - Billing & Invoicing **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 - SSL Security - GPS **Engineering** - Hydraulic engineering - Hydrologic engineering - Transportation engineering - Structural engineering **Additional Functionality** - Mechanical - Process Control - Access Controls/Permissions - Product Data Management - Configurable Workflow - Manufacturing Design Data - Collaboration Tools - 3D Imaging - Data Import/Export - Civil - Customizable Fields - Data Capture and Transfer - Design Management - Version Control - Presentation Tools - Configuration Management - Document Generation - Compliance Management - Change Management - Electrical - Mechatronics - Project Management - AI Copilot - Design Analysis - CAD Tools - Document Management - Bills of Material - Generative AI - Visual Analytics - Data Visualization - File Management - Reporting/Analytics - Project Templates - Content Library ## Top OpenFlows WorkSuite Alternatives - [Civil 3D](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-3d/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (290 reviews) - [GeoHECRAS](https://www.g2.com/products/geohecras/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (353 reviews) - [ZWCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/zwcad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (352 reviews)