Dimension Sheets

A dimension sheet is the technical drawing of a product: the schematic with the measurement callouts, plus the table that decodes them. It lives as its own document under Catalog → Dimension Sheets for one reason, reuse. Appliances often share a chassis, so the sheet for one oven frequently applies to three or four models. Upload it once, reference it from every product it fits, and a correction later lands on all of them at the same time.

What a sheet contains

PartWhat goes inExample
For ProductThe product name or SKU the sheet belongs toTCE 344 chassis
SchematicsThe drawings with callout letters, front and side viewTwo JPGs
MetricsOne row per callout, letter and measurementA = 621, B = 597

The For Product title is internal, it never renders on the site. Its only job is making the sheet findable when a product editor searches for it, so name it after the SKU or family the drawing covers rather than something generic like "oven drawing v2".

Schematics takes one or more images. The drawings render at their natural aspect ratio and are never cropped, and visitors can zoom them. With two or more images the site places them side by side on desktop, which is exactly how a front view and a side view want to sit.

Metrics is the decoder table. Each row pairs a callout letter from the drawing with its measurement. The letters and the drawing have to agree, the system cannot check that a callout labeled C exists in the image, so a quick visual pass before saving is worth it.

dimension sheet edit screen

How it reaches the product page

Dimension sheets render inside the Technical Specs block. In a specs section's rich text, insert the Dimension Sheet block, which has exactly one field: pick the sheet. The drawings and the metrics table appear at that spot in the section.

dimension sheet on the site

Because placement is just a reference, the same sheet can sit on every product that shares the chassis. The products stay independent in every other way, only the drawing is shared.

Updating and replacing

Editing a sheet, swapping a drawing or fixing a measurement, updates every product that references it. That is the feature, but it cuts both ways: before editing a sheet, remember the change is global. If one model diverges from its siblings, do not edit the shared sheet, create a new one for that model and repoint its Dimension Sheet block.

Deleting a sheet is not blocked by usage, the block on the product simply stops rendering. If a sheet looks obsolete, check which products still reference it before removing it.