• closedAccess   Computer-aided sketching as a tool to promote innovation in the new product development process 

      Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel; Varley, Peter Ashley Clifford; Aleixos, Nuria; Naya, Ferran Elsevier (2009)
      Sketching is an established part of engineering culture. Sketches assist product designers during the creative stages of design and help them to develop inventions. Paper-and-pencil sketching is highly useful but lacks ...
    • openAccess   Educational software for teaching drawing-based conceptual design skills 

      Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel; Piquer, Ana; Aleixos, Nuria; Conesa, Julián; Naya, Ferran Wiley (2004-12-17)
      An education-oriented computer application to draw sketches of polyhedrons that are automatically recognized to reconstructs the suitable three-dimensional (3D) models is presented. The users can modify the sketches and ...
    • openAccess   Integrated modeling with Top-Down approach in subsidiary industries 

      Aleixos, Nuria; Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel Elsevier (2004-01)
      This article considers how conceptual design of industrial products is supported by current CAD systems. The case of subsidiary industries, or first tier suppliers, that must simultaneously deal with different customers ...
    • openAccess   ParSketch: a Sketch-based Interface for a 2D Parametric Geometry Editor 

      Naya, Ferran; Contero, Manuel; Aleixos, Nuria; Company, Pedro Springer (2007)
      ParSketch is a software prototype to evaluate the usability and functionality of a sketching interface aimed at defining 2D parametric sections. Currently, ParSketch interprets strokes which can be recognized as geometry ...
    • openAccess   Product Data Quality and Collaborative Engineering 

      Contero, Manuel; Company, Pedro; Vila, Carlos; Aleixos, Nuria IEEE Computer Society (2002-05)
      n this article, the authors analyze the impact of product data quality in the implementation of collaborative engineering in an extended enterprise framework. They also analyze the product data model as a key element for ...