A new use for SketchUp!
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Hi All,
My daughter is thinking of buying a new sofa for her apartment in Brighton UK. She has identified the sofa she wants but is worried about how she could get it up a stairs and through a door off a fairly tight landing!
At her suggestion, she is now sending me all the dimensions involved and I'm going to make a SketchUp model of the stairs area and her apartment entrance for testing.
Hopefully we can try a virtual delivery before she orders the sofa
I will keep you posted on how it works out.
Mike
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Will you model the hole in the plaster where a leg punches through and the bit of door trim that gets broken off?
Good idea, though. You could animate it.
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Mike that is simply brilliant, I got 2 sofas 2yrs ago, when I tried to get them in the front door, well let's just say it couldn't be done, I had to have the window removed and lets just say I had to buy a new window, duhhh
Keep us posted on this, would like to see if it works out in SU and does it work out in the real world.
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He he, If you haven't already done so, I strongly recommend reading the "Dirk Gently - holistic detective" books by Douglas Adams.
One of the running jokes is the sofa that Dirk has to squeeze past every time he leaves his flat - it is jammed in just the kind of position you describe.
So he programs his computer (a Mac no doubt, as Adams was a huge fan) to run a simulation which will tell him how to finally extricate the problematic furniture. But, no matter how many times he runs the simulation, it tells him that the sofa could not possibly have been got into that position, and will be forever impossible to remove!
You have been warned!
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too bad the scale tool isn't useful in the real world
Though the zorro tool might be just what you need - that can certainly be replicated 
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@unknownuser said:
He he, If you haven't already done so, I strongly recommend reading the "Dirk Gently - holistic detective" books by Douglas Adams.
One of the running jokes is the sofa that Dirk has to squeeze past every time he leaves his flat - it is jammed in just the kind of position you describe.One of my favorite Douglas Adams books.
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