Civil Designer vs. OpenRoads Designer

Civil Designer

Civil Designer

0 Reviews and Ratings

OpenRoads Designer

OpenRoads Designer

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Civil Designer	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Civil Designer is civil engineering infrastructure design software. The integrated design modules handle bulk earthworks, highways, roads, surface drainage, wastewater drainage and potable pressurized water network design and analysis, in a single application. The integrated modular design suite is used by consulting engineers, civil engineers, municipal engineers and specialists within the AEC and AECO industries. Civil Designer's Advanced Terrain Modelling module allows advanced survey…	N/A
OpenRoads Designer	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Bentley Systems offers OpenRoads Designer, their civil engineering and design platform which replaces the former GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, InRoads, MX, and PowerCivil.	N/A

Pricing

Civil Designer

OpenRoads Designer

Editions & Modules

Basic: $0

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Civil Designer	OpenRoads Designer
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Civil Designer	OpenRoads Designer
Considered Both Products	Civil Designer No answer on this topic	OpenRoads Designer Ronald Nordmeyer Senior Project Manager Chose OpenRoads Designer We would not use ORD if it was not required by the clients' contracts. Incentivized Helpful? Tejsingh Rana, P.E. Project Manager and Business Development Lead Chose OpenRoads Designer I have used Bentley's Geopak before OpenRoads Designer (ORD) and definitely see that ORD is more powerful and advanced than Geopak in the task of design, analysis, and production of the road/highway projects. ORD makes Geopak obsolete. Incentivized Helpful? WM Warren McLachlan Engineer Chose OpenRoads Designer ORD is a lot faster and a lot more modern than Civil 3D even though they're essentially the same product under different names (in terms of workflows). I find that the DGN file format used by ORD is far better than the DWG file format used by C3D because DGNs can contain much … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Civil Designer	OpenRoads Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Civil Designer	OpenRoads Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	For any linear model creation that follows an alignment. Not suitable to vertical modelling like Buildings. Incentivized Lina Monica Ali BIM Manager Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Integration with other disciplines. If one uses Bentley's companion products like OpenBridge Modeler or OpenSite Designer, there is no need to export any design information to other disciplines as the .dgn files can be directly referenced into other applications. Visualisation - ORD comes bundled with a free version of LumenRT which produces amazing engineering and architectural renderings and can even be used in VR applications. Design Environment. Being based on the DGN file format is brilliant - being able to have multiple models within a single file has so many advantages over the DWG file format. Incentivized WM Warren McLachlan Engineer Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Creating data. Currently will need to create data tag (e.g. volume, length, material type, material engineering criteria etc.) of component manually. Some of the commonly use data in AECOsim should be preset in OpenRoads. Ability to link geometric data values to geometric properties. Currently not linked (e.g. volume value, length value etc.) and had to be keyed in and/or changed manually. Opening (eg. for MEP interface) creation and modification still manual. There should be a smart opening creation that would create openings at interface location and auto enclose the mesh opening so that the volume will take into account the opening(s) created. Incentivized Lina Monica Ali BIM Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We would not use ORD if is was not for clients' contract requirement to use ORD. Ronald Nordmeyer Senior Project Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	ORD is a lot faster and a lot more modern than Civil 3D even though they're essentially the same product under different names (in terms of workflows). I find that the DGN file format used by ORD is far better than the DWG file format used by C3D because DGNs can contain much more information and multiple models per file. C3D is very heavy on memorizing keyboard inputs while ORD is a much more modern interface that relies mostly on using the mouse for inputs. Incentivized WM Warren McLachlan Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Positive definitely as all projects I work on require OpenRoads Designer Helps us meet the deliverable requirements set by our clients Incentivized Tejsingh Rana, P.E. Project Manager and Business Development Lead Read full review
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