Material templates - is this how they should work?

[jhiker]

I'm using the latest KS6 beta with Geomagic (formerly Alibre).
I thought I knew how to use Material Templates but now I'm not so sure. I have certainly used them successfully many times in the past with the Keyshot/Geomagic combination but I'm having difficulty now and I don't know why.
Let's say I finish a 3D model in CAD and export it as a STP (or a BIP, doesn't seem to matter) and save it somewhere.
I then load it into Keyshot and apply materials to everything. I can see from the scene tree that all the parts have materials allocated.
I then go over to the left-hand pane and the 'Material Templates' tab click on the '+' arrow at the top and 'Add Template - Automatic - Part'
A template is created but there's only two items (parts) in the list - see pic.
If I look at any of my 'old' material templates created in KS5 or KS4 I can see they are fully populated.
I need to know how to get Matl Templates to work again....

EDIT: I opened the model again in CAD and sent it through to KShot with the 'render' icon on the tool ribbon. This time I was able to allocate materials and generate a 'full' template.

Is this how it's supposed to work?

[guest84672]

The STEP file, in most cases, will not have any materials or material names stored. Therefore you will only end up with one entry in the template. If you have a STEP file then you will need to do it by part name to get proper results when using material templates.

[jhiker]

You mean 'Add Template - Automatic - Part' - that's what I did.