You can easily search for loaded families. You can see their types and parameters and a thumbnail of the family. You can also place an instance of any available type.
Yes. Family and View Studio -- allows you to simply drag and drop from the results of your search or you can right-click and choose to create an instance from the drop-down menu.
Not “only” with the family name, but you can choose to search only by the family names if you want. Family and View Studio -- allows you to search the way you want to search. You can decide to choose any combination of these five distinct ways: by ...
Family and View Studio currently searches within the active Revit project file (.rvt). We are always looking for feedback on our products to find ways we can improve them for you. Please let us know if there are any other places you want to search.