Hello, I am trying to find a symbol and footprint for a PCA9685 Dev board, but can’t even find a search button, is there a searchable master list or even a how to guide to find a component? Thanks, Losted
Digging into KiCad Docs may helps you. Once you’re clear on how to work with libraries, ask in the forum if you have any problems.
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The symbol and footprint for the IC itself already exists in KiCAD library.
A dev board symbol / footprint depends on a board manufacturer (you didn’t specify board p/n and manufacturer - I found a least a few different ones). I’d check on a manufacturer website first for any info. You may end up making a symbol and footprint yourself.
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In the Schematic Editor, above the drawing area is an icon, when hovered over, shows “Symbol Library Browser”.
Click on that and you will get two columns showing the libraries and their contents.
At the top of each column is a magnifying glass icon.
Type the required library or symbol into the appropriate list beside the magnifying glass.
In your case, you’re looking for a module, so type Module in the library column.
I fear, as @greg_m mentioned, you will have to make your own symbol and footprint. If you have difficulties with these after reading the Docs. and FAQs. please ask in this forum.
It will also pay you to self promote yourself to “Basic” level so you are able to post more freely in this forum. See this FAQ.
Press a in the schematic editor to add a new symbol the empty white thing on the top is a search bar, with live updates during typing.
But it’s mostly symbols for IC’s. There are a few symbols and footprints for modules, breakout boards and development boards, but not many.
RepoRecon finds a project in which it’s used in KiCad:
Kicad doesn’t include many finished products as footprints and symbols. Sometimes people do donate templates for common larger projects like Arduino boards. Since this is a plugin board from the looks of it, then you probably will plug it into what is known as a header.
And footprint is kinda the same thing. But you must at minimum post a link to the actual board you are working with.
If you want to import the actual project into yours instead of just using the connections, then that would be up to the board maker IF they choose to provide that.
With a picture search I find at least 5 different form factors.
The long narrow board seems to be the most common and it is probably (a clone of):
Looks like Adafruit has an (older) eagle project of this on github, but I have not followed the link. Eagle projects can be imported into KiCad with a quite high accuracy, but it probably does need some cleanup.
Hello to all who replied, thank you for your assistance, I was form the help able to find what I was after.
I am below a basic user but have some cad and cnc experience, Kicad really looks like I choose wisely but the learning curve is very steep, anyway, thank you all again. Best regards Ed ( AKA Losted) 
All you need to do is spend another three minutes reading anything on this forum to promote yourself to basic.
A couple of things of note with respect to the boards you are looking for:
The symbol you need is just a rectangle of a size suitable to accommodate the number of pins you need.
The footprint to attach the same board to a mother board underneath, only has 12 pads, the six at the L & R ends. The power and 48 output pins in the schematic do not connect to the motherboard.
Also of note is that these development boards usually have spacing of 1/10 inch between pads so they can be inserted to a standard breadboard.