Translations:Manual:The FreeCAD Interface/26/en

In addition to the 3D view panel, the following information panels are available. They may be made visible or hidden by selecting them from. The name of the panel appears in the upper left corner of the panel when it is displayed: The Tasks tab sometimes has puzzling and frustrating side-effects. If the Task tab is not empty, some FreeCAD operations will not work as expected. For example, if you have a single object in your model such as a cube, double-clicking on it will open the Tasks tab to allow you to modify the parameters characterizing the cube. If you have the Selection view open, you will see the cube's internal name listed there. The entire cube will turn green in the 3D panel, indicating the entire cube is selected. Clicking on the background will deselect the entire cube and clear the Selection view. So far, this is normal behavior. However, if you now click on a face of the cube, instead of that face being selected, nothing will be selected &mdash; because the Tasks tab has not been completed. Even if you have made no modifications to the parameters there, FreeCAD is waiting for the  (or other) button in the Tasks tab to be clicked.
 * The combo view has two tabs:
 * The Model tab shows you the contents and structure of your document above and the properties (or parameters) of the selected object(s) below. These properties are separated into two categories:
 * Data (properties which concern the geometry itself)
 * View (properties that affect how the geometry looks on screen).
 * The Tasks tab is where FreeCAD will prompt you for values specific to the workbench and tool you are currently using. For example, entering a 'length' value when the Draft Workbench Line Tool is being used. It will clear and switch back to the Model tab after the OK (or Cancel) button is pressed. Double-clicking the related object in the Model tab will usually reopen the corresponding Task tab in order to modify the settings.