Can you directly obtain G-code from Inventor Pro 2012?

[docdavies]

Folks,

While at the DC Regional, one of our schools teachers struck up a conversation with a near-by team in the pits. The conversation centered around CAD / CNC work and that team told him there was a mechanism to create g-code directly from Autodesk Inventor Pro 2012. Since we've been seeking an upgrade to our CNC software he returned and told us, "y'all don't need that package...just figure out how to do it in Inventor". Unfortunately, he couldn't explain how they did it, or, remember the name of the other team..... go figure.....

I am totally unaware of how to do that and any advice / suggestions / tutorials would be appreciated.

Also, we'd really like to find out the best route to change raster graphics to vector graphics for CNC purposes. We have a mechanism, but it involves about 4 "free" software packages....not a pretty procedure.

Doc