In the future I want to add some more 2D-oriented stuff in as well, but that recent addition of AI file export has kind of opened the initial door for using MoI drawings in a 2D pipeline.
Hi Michael
in regards to cool use of 2D design work; consider please saving 2D data as SVG.
Have you seen Inkscape? It's a really well rounded open source vector-illustration application - http://www.inkskape.org/, it supports .ai files as well as natively the svg file-format.