OpenRoads Designer vs. Carlson Civil
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | OpenRoads Designer | Carlson Civil |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.1 | 4.3 |
| Review count | 139 | 22 |
| Ease of use | 7.3 | 9.1 |
| Ease of setup | 6.9 | 9.0 |
| Quality of support | 7.9 | 8.8 |
| Meets requirements | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| NPS | 37.5 | 63.636364 |
| Small Business | 22.1% | 31.8% |
| Mid-Market | 34.6% | 40.9% |
| Enterprise | 43.4% | 27.3% |
| Total page views | 471 | 75 |
| Total LLM citations | 3,508 | 112 |
OpenRoads Designer
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition, the successor to Bentley’s industry leading civil engineering brands InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil, is a truly innovative design application, built to address the demands of today’s evolving infrastructure industry. By blending traditional engineering workflows for plan, profile, and cross-sections with 3D parametric modeling, OpenRoads Designer enables the model-centric creation of all your design deliverables.
Carlson Civil
Carlson Civil provides the most robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today, and it does dynamic updating without a single custom object. What might take days with other civil software takes just hours, or even minutes, with the powerful, intuitive Carlson Civil: • Road NETwork. Build all roads, intersections and cul-de-sacs in 2D and 3D with a single click of the “PROCESS” button. • Site NETwork. Elevate your estimating accuracy with this intuitive layer-based surface generator for easy cut/fill and material quantities calculations. • Lot NETwork.