CvPcb lacks details allowing general library explore

[PCB Wiz]

 CvPcb is quite good at filtering across the libraries, but has a couple of blind spots.

 The good news : CvPcb does filter by PinCount
 The bad news : The user cannot provide a Pin Count, you can _only_ seed this from the SCH
                 This also has miss-match issues where you have (eg) mounting holes on a footprint.

 The good news : CvPcb gives a nice footprint list sorted by PinCount and SubString
 The bad news : CvPcb has no means to copy a footprint into the clipboard.

 Workarounds: You can create a SCH with parts PinCount 1..N, and use that as a seed.
 You can
   * double click to copy Footprint into SCH,
   * save/close CvPcb
   * find then use 'E' on part you updated
   * Select/Copy the footprint string from here

 Notice how many mouse clicks and moves are needed here ?

 All the hard work is done, just needs small suggested fixes of :

  1) Allow user entry of PinCount number for filter
  2) Support copy to clipboard of the highlighted Footprint name

[PCB Wiz (1-pcb-wiz)]

See also user requests around this in this thread
https://forum.kicad.info/t/searching-the-libraries/3339

I would expand 1) slightly, to become

1) Allow user entry of PinCount number, or PinCount range, for filter

The addition of range allows users to scan close-choices, that may have mounting holes, thermal vias, etc.

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

Since this bug report is 3 years old, hasn't accumulated any heat, and KiCad has the "Symbol/Footprint Library Browser" for this task, I'm going to close this out.