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by zzm9980 » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 3:12 am
Yes, I know. It's like the opposite of "How long is a piece of string?", and the answer is "1666 cubic feet."
What I really want to know is, about how big of a box is that usually? How much furniture and such does one estimate can fit in that much space? Even better if someone has a web page that shows a visualization. I've been trying to find one, but cannot.
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by nakatago » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 3:44 am
zzm9980 wrote:Yes, I know. It's like the opposite of "How long is a piece of string?", and the answer is "1666 cubic feet."
What I really want to know is, about how big of a box is that usually? How much furniture and such does one estimate can fit in that much space? Even better if someone has a web page that shows a visualization. I've been trying to find one, but cannot.
Run or download sketchup and create a cube that big? You can create solids there with a human to scale quite easily.
Here's an online version that works on windows.
https://spoon.net/apps/sketchup
I haven't tried it though because my current setup doesn't have my usual virtual machines which include Windows.
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by brian_singapore » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:53 am
Assume this is a container for shipping?
If for personal effects then moving companies can usually give you an approximation based on things like 'you can fit a family of 4, standard 3 bedroom house in it'.
Or they can tell you usually a living room, dining room and kitchen etc.
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by zzm9980 » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:03 am
brian_singapore wrote:Assume this is a container for shipping?
If for personal effects then moving companies can usually give you an approximation based on things like 'you can fit a family of 4, standard 3 bedroom house in it'.
Or they can tell you usually a living room, dining room and kitchen etc.
Brian
Yeah, they didn't.

Just 1666 cubic feet. I'll try the sketchup in a VM, thanks Nak.
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by Strong Eagle » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:32 pm
Simple... 1666 is roughly 1600 cubic feet.
So...imagine a room with 8 foot ceiling, standard for most US homes.
With an 8 foot ceiling you need a room 10 ft wide and 20 ft long to get to 1600 cubic ft... 20 x 10 x 8.
If you had 10 ft ceilings, you need a room 16 ft x 10 ft to get to 1600 cubic ft.
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by zzm9980 » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:38 pm
Strong Eagle wrote:Simple... 1666 is roughly 1600 cubic feet.
So...imagine a room with 8 foot ceiling, standard for most US homes.
With an 8 foot ceiling you need a room 10 ft wide and 20 ft long to get to 1600 cubic ft... 20 x 10 x 8.
If you had 10 ft ceilings, you need a room 16 ft x 10 ft to get to 1600 cubic ft.
Hmm that's quite large, and did help. Thanks!
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by kaseyma » Sat, 04 Oct 2014 2:55 pm
Is this for storage?
It seems to be a couple of feet longer than the standard 20 ft shipping container (8x8.5x20 = 1,360 ft³), and even 10% more volume than the taller "high" container (8x9.5x20 = 1,520 ft³).
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