diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.cpp
index 1a36467363..b7d72bab14 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.cpp
@@ -970,6 +970,10 @@ void DesignCanvas::set_status_text(const wxString& text, const wxColour& colour)
 void DesignCanvas::place_status_hud()
 {
     if (!m_status_hud || !m_canvas_widget || m_status_hud_last.IsEmpty()) return;
+    // The canvas has a client size even while its page is hidden, and it is not the size the
+    // page will have when shown — anchoring against it put the chip up on the tab bar, where it
+    // then stayed until the next status change moved it. Nothing to anchor to: stay down.
+    if (!m_canvas_widget->IsShownOnScreen()) { m_status_hud->Hide(); return; }
     const wxSize cs = m_canvas_widget->GetClientSize();
     const wxSize hs = m_status_hud->GetSize();
     // Clear of the view cube and the two round view buttons, which own the bottom-left corner.
@@ -983,6 +987,13 @@ void DesignCanvas::place_status_hud()
     m_status_hud->Move(bl);
 }
 
+void DesignCanvas::show_status_hud(bool on)
+{
+    if (!m_status_hud) return;
+    if (on) place_status_hud();      // re-anchors first: the page may have been resized while away
+    else    m_status_hud->Hide();
+}
+
 void DesignCanvas::set_body_highlight(bool on)
 {
     if (m_body_selected == on) return;
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.hpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.hpp
index 4462de096b..c94f7f584b 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.hpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignCanvas.hpp
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ public:
     // the panel clips it at ~73 characters with no warning (snaporca-8cc), the viewport's
     // bottom margin has the whole window width to spare. Empty text hides it.
     void set_status_text(const wxString& text, const wxColour& colour);
+    // Take the status line down / bring it back when the Design page leaves and re-enters view.
+    // A popup is a TOP-LEVEL window: hiding the page it belongs to does not hide it. Keeps the
+    // text, so coming back needs no re-selection.
+    void show_status_hud(bool on);
     void set_operand_bodies(int target_body, int tool_body);  // -1,-1 clears
     void set_body_translucent(bool on); // render the solid see-through (fillet/chamfer preview)
     void set_body_hidden(bool on);      // preview-only: hide base bodies, show only the result ghost
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.cpp
index b64c1e2b38..a9f04d56a4 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.cpp
@@ -5694,8 +5694,20 @@ wxString DesignPanel::idle_hint() const
         : _L("No solid yet — select a sketch and right-click it to Extrude.");
 }
 
+// The Design tab is no longer the visible page (snaporca-dlj). The status line is a popup floating
+// over the GL canvas, so it does NOT go away when this page does — it stayed up over Prepare and
+// over the home screen, still reading like a live Design selection ("selected (whole body) —
+// right-click for what applies to it") on a tab that has no such selection and no such menu.
+// Nothing else in the panel needs to know: the popup keeps its text and comes straight back.
+void DesignPanel::on_tab_hidden()
+{
+    if (m_viewport) m_viewport->show_status_hud(false);
+}
+
 void DesignPanel::on_tab_shown()
 {
+    if (m_viewport) m_viewport->show_status_hud(true);   // ...and back on the way in
+
     if (m_active == Tool::None && m_doc.display_mesh.its.indices.empty())
         set_status(idle_hint());   // first paint: the tab has never been edited
 
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.hpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.hpp
index 37535b42c6..a1c265ffd5 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.hpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignPanel.hpp
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class DesignPanel : public wxPanel
 public:
     explicit DesignPanel(wxWindow* parent);
     void on_tab_shown();        // re-sync bed to the active printer when the Design tab is activated
+    void on_tab_hidden();       // another tab took over: take the viewport status line down with us
     // Rebuild off the UI thread (progress dialog only if it turns out to be slow), so a feature
     // op on a heavy imported solid does not freeze the window. Returns m_doc.recompute()'s result.
     bool recompute_guarded(const wxString& message);
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignSketchTool.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignSketchTool.cpp
index 637a36e26e..30a73ef6e9 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignSketchTool.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/DesignSketchTool.cpp
@@ -8068,6 +8068,27 @@ bool DesignSketchTool::on_mouse_impl(wxMouseEvent& evt, GLCanvas3D& canvas)
             return true;
         }
         m_display_pick = -1; m_display_pick_region = -1;  // clicked bare plate -> drop highlight
+        // ...and the SOLID selection goes with it (snaporca-od0). A click that hits nothing has to
+        // mean what a rubber band that sweeps nothing already means — pick_bodies_in_rectangle
+        // clears on an empty sweep, and the two gestures cannot disagree about the same outcome.
+        // Until now the face survived a click on bare plate, so "click away, then click the face
+        // again" arrived here as the SECOND click on the same face and escalated to the whole
+        // body, when the click away was the user letting go of it.
+        //
+        // The cost is real and is the intended trade: Thicken / Shell / Draft hold their input
+        // face in the panel's m_sel_solid_face, so a stray click on empty canvas with one of
+        // those cards open gives that face back. Their handlers already write the "(pick a solid
+        // face)" placeholder and rebuild the ghost at level 0, so the card SAYS it lost the pick
+        // rather than confirming against a face the viewport has stopped highlighting.
+        //
+        // Guarded on there being something to clear: this runs on every click that misses, and
+        // the callback re-renders the open card's preview.
+        if (m_solid_sel != SolidSel::None) {
+            clear_solid_selection();
+            dp_pick_trace("clicked empty space -> selection cleared");
+            if (on_solid_selection_changed)
+                on_solid_selection_changed(int(m_solid_sel), m_sel_body, m_sel_face, m_sel_edge);
+        }
         // Last resort: a click that hit no geometry but landed on a reference/base plane picks it.
         if (m_dbp_active) {
             const int h = hit_test_base_pick(canvas, evt);
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/MainFrame.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/MainFrame.cpp
index aa3c932569..572ef30e47 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/MainFrame.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/MainFrame.cpp
@@ -1290,6 +1290,11 @@ void MainFrame::init_tabpanel() {
         else if (panel == m_monitor) {
             //monitor
         }
+#ifdef SLIC3R_CAD
+        // Any page that is not Design takes the Design status line down with it — see
+        // DesignPanel::on_tab_hidden for why the popup does not follow the page on its own.
+        if (m_design_panel != nullptr && panel != m_design_panel) m_design_panel->on_tab_hidden();
+#endif
 #ifndef __APPLE__
         if (sel == tp3DEditor) {
             m_topbar->EnableUndoRedoItems();