Sanddrag,
The "system" came with MasterCAM x5 (?). During the hocus-pokeus set up demonstration, I thought I saw the MasterCAM software guide the production of a "part". Problem was, fingers were flying, keys were pounding, mice were zooming and it was hard to tell what was happening. The installer had taken 6 hr to get it going and just really wanted to go home.
But we did ask about Gcode, and were able (actually we had to, to change to a bit we had that the machine didn't know about) edit it. But the whole process was not pretty.
In a nut shell, we have Autodesk Inventor Pro 2012 (and we've become much better with it), MasterCAM x5 (and supposedly all the translators and libraries) and the following machine....
http://www.techno-isel.com/Education1/Patriot.htm
So, are there tutorials on how to go from Inventor, where we currently do all our designs, to finished part?
Thanks for your patience all!
Doc