Cubik Studio

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 required to modify the model"

How do I import the parent model so that I can edit the child model? Manually setting the parent in "Model Properties" doesn't work.

File > Import and select the parent model directly.

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

Just import the parent model by itself as it's the one that has the actual model in it.

You have already stated the child model doesn't have much in it (besides probably changing a texture, or two) so you have no need to open the child in this circumstance.

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