Deleting unwanted, invisible mesh points

- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to begin…work on the hood right here,…and along the way I'll show you how to delete…invisible, unwanted mesh points…which are a real nuisance inside the program.…And they can be extremely confusing at first.…In fact I would go so far as to say…they are extremely confusing always.…In any event I'm going to switch over…to the project file so far,…and notice this hood path right here.…It is another compound shape…as we can see on the far left side of the control panel,…and so what I've got…is this path right here cut out of the hood.…

Alright so that's not going to work.…I can't turn a compound shape into a mesh object,…and so what I'll do is go to the Window menu,…and choose Pathfinder to bring up the Pathfinder panel.…Again, with any luck, you'll see the Expand button.…If not, click off the path, and select it again.…And, once again, if you have that checkbox…turned on inside the preferences dialog box…you're going to have to click on the…path outline then click Expand,…and that will go ahead and convert the compound shape…