# Basic Illustrator CS help needed!

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**Created:** [March 1, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-illustrator-cs-help-needed/139169 "2005-03-01T02:51:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-illustrator-cs-help-needed/139169/1 "2005-03-01T02:51:20Z")

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Hi

I’ve been trying to solve this for sometime but I can’t figure out how to do it! I have created a number of hexagons which are placed together and now I want to make the hexagonal “mesh” into a circle, i.e. remove anything not within the circle! I’ve tried using compound shapes and the pathfinder palette but I still can’t do it! Please help!

THX