Huh? Can you tell me how you develop i.e. a casing for a vacuum cleaner with brushes and symbols? Or a household product? With perfect data for a CNC machine to produce tools? That's more than hilarious.

Illustrator with a plug-in a CAD tool? What a nightmare! Two years ago I had a customer who boasted he used Illustrator with a CAD plug-in. I trusted him, until I had to find out that we couldn't use **any** of his drawings.

Come on guys, Illustrator is way too limited to be considered a serious development or CAD or even technical drawing tool. Even my 16 year old 2D CAD tool DrawingBoard will beat Illustrator in terms of speed, versatility, precision (up to 16 digits!), and functioning export formats.

Ever tried to connect two lines with a specific section of a circle (tangent, tangent, radius) - one of the most simple tasks? Or a curve with another curve and a line (tangent, tangent, tangent)?

Not to mention parametrics for either single elements or entire objects...