A long time ago when I was using a DOS version of some PCB design program, one of my brothers told me electrical wiring diagrams for cabinets were made with autocad, with some special libraries and extensions. I have no experience with any such programs. (Disclaimer: I have not personally used any of these tools.) But there are also open source alternatives like. One such option is DesignSpark Electrical by RS. EPLAN is the king here (similar to Altium in the field of PCB design) but there are cheaper options available. But I fear there is no desire from the official library team to add symbols for a task that is better handled in other software. There are workarounds for many of these tasks. Schematics for wiring cabinets are typically only handled as printouts. Hierarchical designs are not really readable when printed. KiCad is meant for hierarchical design.There is no way to encode the restriction of using cables instead of PCB traces (no strictly paired cross-references for nets, no directional junctions, …).There is no way to reference parts of components located on other pages (like the contacts of a relay or fuse).This will get tricky if you want to have wires spread out as needed (extra tricky for high connection count wires).KiCad has no way to add wires (other than making symbols for every possible one).There are quite a few features missing for this usecase. I am assuming with industrial circuitry you mean making a drawing for a wiring cabinet.
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