Interaction could be cleaner for search/select...

[idesignstuff]

So Keyshot is better with every release, and the scale of our gripes is a testament to that.
Here's a pain point I deal with regularly:
I have a large assembly (yellow heavy equipment mfr), and am assigning materials to things.
My current process is to:
1. drop the base material on the top of the model tree to color everything with one material.
2. Assign materials to the details that need to be something else.
3. Use the search bar to select hardware by name, one part number at a time.

Here is where the pain starts, every time I copy/paste the name of a part into the search bar, and then assign a material, I then have to go to the corner of the search bar and hit the "X" to clear it out so I can repeat the copy/paste/assign workflow.

So here's the requested behavior:
It would be awesome if the event of doing something (transform, delete, hide, assign materials, etc...) to the selected set would clear the search bar for me, but leave the set selected.

Then, if I want to keep working with that set, I can, but if I want to move on to the next set, I can with no road blocks.

Thanks again.