Thank you lasserline.

there is no "export to Reality" option so I don't knwo what you meant by that.

if you hide a figure in Reality then that figure is removed from Reality. If you meant that you right-cliked on a material, selected copy w/texture, selected another material, right-clicked on it and then selected paste, then that system should be indipendent from the original figure. 

Maybe others can test this procuedure. Did you use the procedure that I described above?

Paolo

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