outline mode please help!

[willinillime]

i'm using illustrator with a cad cutter- in the readme file it says to set illustrator to "contour only outline" setting.

does anyone know how to do this so that i dont have to go over the image in outline veiw and delete parts of lines where objects overlap, to avoid cuts through solid shapes?
many thanks

sarah

 

[tperkins]

Goto "Veiw>Preview" or the keyboard shortcut is "apple y"

Tony Perkins

 

[willinillime]

thanks, but thats not exactly what i meant... all the preveiw does is out line all the lines- i only want to see the contour only line as in the outline of all the objects laid ontop of each other in normal mode, without all the inner lines where shapes cross over each other.
any ideas?