Why doesn't the pathfinder add separate shapes together as one shape?
Hello everyone,
Why doesn't the pahtfinder make one shape out of separate shapes? If I try to make one shape out of the three separate lines in the example beneath, then it automatically groupes them together, like a compound path. But I don't want them to be a group, I want them to be one shape. When the shapes overlap, it does merge them together, so the pathfinder is working.
Is there another way to make one shape out of separate shapes? Or is there some kind of setting I have to change? Would love to hear about it. In other design software I use, this is no issue.

