Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn To Trace the Outer Contour of an Enclosed Area (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Click Home tabConstruction panel drop-downContour Outside. Find Select the objects that bound the area you want to trace. To use any entities on underlying layers as additional boundaries, select them. Press ENTER. Related Concepts About Tracing Contours (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Related Tasks To Check Whether a Contour Is Closed or Not (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Trace the Inner Contour of an Enclosed Area, Segment by Segment (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Trace the Inner Contour of an Enclosed Area (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)