Getting started.

For Worldwide: KKE Circuit is available across Global in English. Region: Global (INT).

What is KKE Circuit?

Quick answer: KKE Circuit is a browser-based electrical engineering documentation platform that replaces AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN and Excel for the daily documentation work of electrical, automation and process engineers. It produces multi-sheet schematics, single-line diagrams (SLDs), P&IDs, panel layouts, terminal drawings and PLC I/O drawings on a single canvas, with a symbol library that already speaks IEC, UL 508A, CSA, AS/NZS and NEMA. Engineering calculations (cable sizing, BOM, terminal-strip generation), pull-request-style reviews, and read-only client share links are built in.

KKE Circuit is built for teams who currently juggle four different tools to produce one set of drawings. By unifying schematic, P&ID, panel and BOM work in one project, it removes the export-import-rework loop that consumes 30–40% of a typical electrical engineer's documentation time.

The product runs entirely in the browser. There is no installer, no plug-in, no Java runtime. Engineers open the editor on a laptop; clients open a read-only share link on a phone.

KKE Circuit at a glance — feature matrix

Capability	KKE Circuit	AutoCAD Electrical	EPLAN Electric P8	SmartDraw
Browser-native (no install)	✅	❌	❌	✅
Schematic editor	✅	✅	✅	Partial
Single-line diagrams	✅	✅	✅	Partial
P&ID (ISA-5.1 / ISO 10628)	✅	Add-on	Add-on	Partial
Pneumatic & hydraulic (ISO 1219)	✅	Add-on	Add-on	❌
Multi-variant symbols (one part → all drawing types)	✅	❌	Partial	❌
Multi-standard switch (IEC ↔ UL ↔ CSA ↔ AS/NZS ↔ NEMA)	✅	Manual	Project-level	❌
IEC 60364-5-52 cable sizer (built-in)	✅	❌	Add-on	❌
Auto-generated terminal strips	✅	Partial	✅	❌
BOM generator + CSV export	✅	Partial	✅	❌
Push BOM to ERP (Odoo)	✅	❌	Custom	❌
PR-style drawing reviews	✅	❌	❌	❌
Read-only share link (no client login)	✅	❌	❌	✅
Seat-based subscription	✅	Per-seat license	Per-seat license	✅
Mobile read-only viewing	✅	❌	❌	✅

Quickstart: your first schematic in 5 minutes

Quick answer: Sign in with your Odoo or KKE Circuit account, click New Project, choose Schematic (IEC 60617) as the first drawing, drag a contactor and motor from the symbol library onto the canvas, draw a wire between them, set the wire's cross-section, and you have a working schematic. Auto-save runs every 60 seconds.

1. Go to circuit.kkeserver.com and sign in.
2. From the dashboard, click New Project and fill in name, company, client, and electrical standard (IEC, UL 508A, CSA, AS/NZS, or NEMA).
3. Click New Drawing → choose Schematic → select page size A3 Landscape.
4. From the left sidebar, expand Power & Control → Contactors, click Contactor 3-pole NO. Click on the canvas to place it. Reference designator K1 is assigned automatically.
5. Place a motor: Motors → 3-phase induction motor. Reference designator M1 is assigned.
6. Click the wire tool (or press W), click an output pin of K1, click an input pin of M1. The wire snaps to the grid and routes Manhattan-style.
7. Click the wire to open its property panel; set cross-section to 2.5 mm², colour to IEC L1 brown.
8. Press Ctrl+S to force save (auto-save also runs every 60 seconds).

Quickstart: your first P&ID in 5 minutes

Quick answer: Create a project with ISA-5.1 as the standard, add a P&ID drawing, drop a centrifugal pump and a control valve from the P&ID symbol library, draw a process line between them — the line auto-colours blue if the pump's outlet pin is kind: water. Add an instrument bubble (FT-101) and connect it to the pipe with an electric-signal line.

1. New Project → standard: ISA-5.1 / ISO 10628.
2. New Drawing → P&ID → A2 Landscape.
3. From P&ID → Pumps drag a centrifugal pump onto the canvas. From P&ID → Valves drag a control valve.
4. Press W to draw a process pipe between the pump outlet and the valve inlet. The line auto-colours blue because both pins are defined as water.
5. From P&ID → Instruments drop a flow transmitter (FT). Use the Tag field on the property panel: FT-101.
6. Connect FT-101 to the pipe with an electric signal line (dashed) — the signal type is set on the line's property panel.

Quickstart: your first single-line diagram in 5 minutes

Quick answer: Add a Single-Line Diagram drawing to your project. Drop the same components you would use on a schematic — incomer, MCCB, contactor, motor — and the canvas renders them as single-line glyphs instead of multi-line symbols. The library does not need separate SLD parts; multi-variant symbols pick the SLD geometry automatically.

1. From an existing project, New Drawing → Single-Line Diagram → A3 Landscape.
2. Drop an incomer at the top, an MCCB, a contactor, an overload, and a motor below it.
3. Each part renders as a single-line glyph because it has been configured as a multi-variant symbol — the same library items would render as multi-line schematic symbols on a Schematic drawing.
4. Wire them together top-to-bottom with one click each.
5. The reference designators (Q1, K1, F1, M1) are shared across the schematic and SLD — change K1 on either drawing and it updates everywhere.

System requirements & supported browsers

Browser	Version	Status
Google Chrome	110+	✅ Fully supported
Microsoft Edge	110+	✅ Fully supported
Apple Safari	16+	✅ Fully supported
Firefox	110+	✅ Supported (minor canvas perf differences)
Mobile Safari (iPad / iPhone)	iOS 16+	✅ View-only
Mobile Chrome (Android)	latest	✅ View-only

Hardware

• 8 GB RAM recommended for projects with > 50 sheets.
• Two-button mouse + scroll wheel recommended (trackpad supported).
• Minimum screen resolution 1280×800; 1920×1080 or higher recommended.

Network

• Outbound HTTPS to *.kkeserver.com and storage.googleapis.com (drawings).
• WebSocket support (used by review and notification UI).

Signing in with your Odoo account (SSO)

Quick answer: If your organisation runs Odoo 18, your KKE Circuit account uses your Odoo username and password — no separate password to remember. The login page authenticates against your organisation's Odoo server via XML-RPC, then issues a KKE Circuit JWT for the session.

1. Go to circuit.kkeserver.com.
2. Click Sign in with Odoo.
3. Enter the email or username you use for Odoo, and your Odoo password.
4. KKE Circuit verifies the credentials against your organisation's configured Odoo URL and creates (or refreshes) your KKE Circuit user.

If your organisation does not use Odoo, sign in with the email and password set when your invitation was accepted.

Account types and how invitations work

There are three ways to get a KKE Circuit account:

How you got here	What happens
Your admin invited you	You receive an email with a 30-day-valid link. Click it → set a password → land on the dashboard.
Your admin imported you from Odoo	Your account already exists. Use Sign in with Odoo with your existing Odoo password.
Someone shared a project with you (not yet a member)	If you accept editor / commenter level access, an account is created automatically with a one-time link.
You started a free trial yourself	A new organisation is created with you as admin. You can invite teammates from Settings → Members.

Free trial, plans, and seat-based licensing

Quick answer: Every new organisation gets a 30-day free trial with full features. After that, the organisation pays per active seat per month (or per year, with a discount). Adding seats mid-cycle is prorated. Trial → active → grace (7 days) → read-only → locked → purged is the lifecycle for unpaid accounts.

Plan stage	Duration	What you can do
Trial	30 days	All features, unlimited drawings, up to your trial seat count
Active	While paying	All features at your seat count and storage tier
Grace	7 days post-expiry	Continue editing while admin sorts payment
Read-only	After grace	View and export only — no edits
Locked	After read-only window	Account inaccessible; data retained
Purged	30 days after lock	Project data deleted permanently

Storage tiers are organisation-wide quotas (drawings + cached PDF/DXF exports). The current quota is shown in the sidebar.

Payment methods supported: Stripe (card, ACH, SEPA), Razorpay (UPI, netbanking, cards — India), PayU (India / MENA / SEA), PayPal.

Migrating from AutoCAD Electrical to KKE Circuit

Quick answer: KKE Circuit imports DXF files as either single components (one DXF → one symbol on the current drawing) or as a bulk symbol library import (many DXF files → many entries in your custom symbol library). For a full project migration, recreate the project structure in KKE Circuit and re-link parts to your existing organisation P/Ns; the symbol library does the heavy lifting via multi-variant symbols.

Migration workflow

1. Export each AutoCAD Electrical drawing to DXF.
2. In KKE Circuit, decide whether the DXF should become a symbol (reusable, one-time import) or a one-off block on a drawing.
3. For symbol-library reuse: Library → Import → Bulk DXF. Drop the folder of DXF files; KKE Circuit creates one custom symbol per file with the filename as the symbol name.
4. After import, open each new symbol and define pins — name, edge, type (power/control/PE/signal), and kind (electric/water/oil/air). Pins drive connectivity, BOM aggregation and P&ID auto-colouring.
5. Recreate the project structure (folders → projects → drawings) in KKE Circuit.
6. Use the Standards switcher to set IEC or UL once per project rather than maintaining two title blocks.

What KKE Circuit replaces in your AutoCAD workflow

AutoCAD Electrical feature	KKE Circuit equivalent
WD_M block / project setup	New Project wizard
AECONNECT insert	Multi-variant symbol from library
Wire numbering (AEWIRENO)	Auto-numbered net labels + terminal strip generator
AEPROJECT BOM	Project → BOM menu
Catalog database (*.mdb)	Library → Manage + Odoo product.product sync
Plotting via PC3 / CTB	Export → PDF with regular / pro quality
Title block update across drawings	Title block placeholders resolved from project metadata

Migrating from EPLAN Electric P8 to KKE Circuit

Quick answer: EPLAN P8 projects export to DXF/DWG per page; import each DXF as a one-off block, or batch-import the symbol macros into the KKE Circuit symbol library. Project structure (pages, structures, identifiers) maps directly: EPLAN's high-level structure → KKE Circuit project; EPLAN page → KKE Circuit drawing; EPLAN device tag → KKE Circuit reference designator.

EPLAN concept	KKE Circuit concept
Project	Project
Page (multi-line, single-line, panel layout)	Drawing (Schematic, SLD, General Arrangement)
Macro (.ema, .emp)	Custom symbol with multi-variant geometry
Device tag (+CAB1-K1)	Reference designator + panel assignment
Cross-reference (page X / column Y)	Net label + sheet identifier
Terminal plan	Auto-generated terminal strip
Article / part master	Library item with organisation P/N + Odoo product link

Migrating from SEE Electrical to KKE Circuit

SEE Electrical projects export to DXF per drawing. Use the same DXF-import path documented in Migrating from AutoCAD Electrical. SEE Electrical's title-block fields map directly to KKE Circuit title block placeholders.