Contour Plug In For Illustrator

Hello everyone...
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide. Perhaps there is a thread for this already. I apologize if that is the case.
I work for a manufacturing organization creating technical illustrations, instruction sheets, drilling templates, etc. We create isometric views of the product in a 3d manipulation software (IsoDraw), export the line art and import the line art into illustrator.
The software does a decent job creating the curves and fairly clean line art. However, when we need to create fills, we select the outermost paths, cut any extra off, use JETJoin (thanks JET...GREAT script!!) then fill what is then a closed path.
Is anyone aware of a plug-in or script that would allow us to just select the artwork then run the plug-in or script and it would find the contour, then create the closed path that we could use as a "fill"?
We are all on Windows XP Pro on Dell Precision laptops. However, a solution that could work on both Windows and Mac would be a real bonus.
Thank you all for your help!

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