Yeah, as long as I don't add anything to the model, it shoudl work. Weird that it only works with a workaround though . Would be nice if I could at least load the parent via the explorer

What do you mean with "select the parent model directly"? Select both files in the explorer and import? That doesn't seem to work for me though

I have several child models that inherit from a parent model. It works quite well in Minecraft, but only because I hard coded it. When I import one of the children into Cubik Studio this error appears:
"xxx is a child of item/xxx/parent.json and does not contain any element. Importing the Parent is ...