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I have several small houses to render with similar floor plans and same materials. Do I need to load each file into octane and assign materials.

If you have enough memory, you could integrate all the houses into a single model (far enough apart that you can't see more than one at a time), and then use Octane's camera controls to set up each view separately.

Then any edits you make to materials will apply to all the houses at once.

This strategy also depends on how fancy the environment around each house is, and whether or not you need multiple renders of each from different angles...

There could be 2 ways:
Reloading: Setup your first house in your host app, use the same materials names for the rest of the houses, export the first one, tune your materials, set light and configure octane, once is ready save the scene lets say A.ocs, resave as B.ocs, reload mesh with second house, you'll keep the same materials and setup, repeat as needed.
Load several mesh nodes: (in this case is important they are place in the exact same place for camera purpouses) Export your obj files. Load octane and add one mesh node for each house. Create your material nodes and attach them to each mesh node as required. Switch between nodes to check material assigment, set light, kernel, camera... render each node.

Thank you timbarnes and kubo for your advise. Unfortunately timeframe meant I had to revert to Maxwell to complete task. sample file attached. I will post Octane file once I become familiar with the software