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# HydroSym

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> HydroSym is an engineering CAD software designed to help businesses create diagrams of hydraulic and pneumatic systems. It provides an inbuilt library of hydraulic components, assembly drawings, and symbols with details about parts’ numbers, descriptions, types, manufacturers, and more.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of HydroSym

 HydroSym allows engineers to create hydraulic design specific for drawing flawless hydraulic schematics. &#10;&#10; Smart connecting lines with information flows, automatic jumpers, and straightforward changing of solenoid properties.&#10;&#10; HydroSym provides access to library of 40,000 hydraulic components.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 3 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Paro Software
- **Founded**: 2009

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: USD 39.00
- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: HydroSym offers a free trial for new users, after which the software is available on annual subscriptions and perpetual license. Pricing and functionality - outlined below - scales with number of users. Subscriptions are invoiced in advance annually. Invoicing per month is available against a monthly €5 surcharge per license.&#10;&#10;Monthly Subscription &#10;Get Started&#10;•&#9;1st license available at €39/month&#10;•&#9;2nd license available at €29/month&#10;•&#9;3+ license available at €19/month&#10;&#10;Anywhere you want&#10;•&#9;1st license available at €59/month&#10;•&#9;2nd license available at €49/month&#10;•&#9;3+ license available at €29/month&#10;&#10;Perpetual Licenses &#10;Fully own it&#10;•&#9;1st license available at €995&#10;•&#9;2nd license available at €745&#10;•&#9;3+ license available at €495&#10;&#10;Network Perpetual&#10;•&#9;1st license available at €1490&#10;•&#9;2nd license available at €1090&#10;•&#9;3+ license available at €690
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia and 76 more

## Features

- 2D Drawing
- Bills of Material
- Collaboration Tools
- Content Library
- Data Import/Export
- Design Analysis
- Design Management
- Document Management
- Manufacturing Design Data
- Product Data Management
- Project Management

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat

## Category

- [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/1207/engineering-cad/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Altium Develop](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/121767/altium-designer) — 4.6/5 (181 reviews)
2. [AutoCAD](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/112399/autocad) — 4.7/5 (3207 reviews)
3. [SolidWorks Premium](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2061953/solidworks-premium) — 4.6/5 (756 reviews)
4. [Alibre Design](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2054207/alibre-design) — 4.7/5 (182 reviews)
5. [MATLAB](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2049791/matlab) — 4.6/5 (2093 reviews)

## Reviews

### "HydroSym user experience" — 5.0/5

> **Arjan** | *27 May 2020* | Maritime | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: complete solution for hydraulics, very easy to use \&amp; full integration with HydroMan
> 
> **Cons**: We like to intergrade HydroSym within Teamcenter, we will do this in the nearly future.
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> We are using HydroSym for many years, the efficiency in compare with the software used before is almost 40%

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### "By far the best schematic software avaliable." — 5.0/5

> **Theis** | *12 June 2020* | Machinery | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The library, connection lines and the symbol edit function.
> 
> **Cons**: Printing to pdf, and rolling the drawing header out in the organisation.&#10;And removing/hiding port names.&#10;It a litte tricky drawing in old dwg-files after converting them to hdf. - It does work good enough.
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> There are barely any snags and it does work very well.&#10;Support is excellent and

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### "Very impressed" — 5.0/5

> **Jean-Nicolas** | *27 May 2020* | Machinery | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: We really love the symbols and components libraries.  They are very complete\!
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> **Cons**: The speed the zoom in / zoom out function works is faster than our CAD drawing, so we need to get used to it.
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> I've been REALLY impressed with tthe customer service.  They answered really fast.  Also, if the component you are looking for isn't in the library, the will create it for you in couple days.  Wow\!

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