Best practices for AD with Keyshot

[dwc]

I need to make a series of renderings for those making design decisions. There are small changes in form and color for every rendering, but the majority of the object must remain the same.
I am going crazy as I can find no way to define a material in AD or to apply the same materials to the same features in KS.
Every time I make a new variant I have to start over completely applying materials etc. Impossible to not make mistakes as I can't find a way in KS to copy materials.
This has to be easy, please help me!
Don

 

[bigseb]

JST knows a way to do this I think. Perhaps he can chip in...

 

[simonb65]

Use material templates in keyshot. You can set up a number of templates for different colour/material schemes and it basically maps a part name (using wildcards if you need to) to a material. There is a tutorial on Material Templates on the keyshot site.
Take a look at ...

 

[dwc]

Thanks Simon, with that I am up and running.
Don