OpenRoads Designer vs. HydroCAD
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | OpenRoads Designer | HydroCAD |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| Review count | 139 | 13 |
| Ease of use | 7.3 | 8.3 |
| Ease of setup | 6.9 | 10.0 |
| Quality of support | 7.9 | 9.2 |
| Meets requirements | 8.6 | 8.7 |
| NPS | 37.5 | 38.461538 |
| Small Business | 22.1% | 41.7% |
| Mid-Market | 34.6% | 33.3% |
| Enterprise | 43.4% | 25.0% |
| Total page views | 471 | 65 |
| Total LLM citations | 3,508 | 48 |
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.
HydroCAD
HydroCAD combines the best of TR-20, TR-55, and SBUH, plus built-in hydraulics, graphics, automatic database, and on-screen routing diagram in a single program. (see comparison table) The result is the fastest, easiest, and most capable stormwater modeling system available. We call it HydroCAD because it brings the benefits of Computer Aided Design to hydrology, while not requiring any other CAD software. However, HydroCAD-10 now offers direct extraction of subarea data directly from AutoCAD®, without any other software.