copy/paste material behavior in Keyshot7

[human_bean]

When I use the (Shift + LMB, Shift + RMB) shortcut to copy & paste a material, it only applies the material to a piece of surface on the new part rather than the whole part.  Up until Keyshot 6, the whole part would be affected if I pasted a material on to it.

Is there a setting that changes this behavior?

[Esben Oxholm]

Hi.

What does your scene tree look like? Is the separate surfaces that you can apply materials to, listed as separate geometry?
I suspect you should solve this problem when you import your model.

Can you share some information on your import process?

[DriesV]

What CAD system are you importing from?

Dries

[DriesV]

There is currently an issue where faces aren't merged correctly when importing Rhino models. A fix is in the works.
If you check "Import NURBS Data" in the import dialog, then the  copy and paste behavior for materials should behave as in KeyShot 6 though.

Dries

[human_bean]

What does your scene tree look like? Is the separate surfaces that you can apply materials to, listed as separate geometry?
I suspect you should solve this problem when you import your model.

All of the surfaces are listed as separate geometry.  I'm importing a Rhino CAD model so I guess that explains the problem.  Thanks both of you for the help.

[DriesV]

in the meantime, until we have a permanent fix, you can always import NURBS. That will show the geometry as a single piece in the Scene Tree and will give you the expected material copy/paste behavior.

Dries