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Tania orange
Inspiring
June 15, 2025
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Looking for "Release to Layer" in web version

  • June 15, 2025
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Use Case

I am preparing my artwork in Illustrator (web) so that I can import the puppet into Adobe Character Animator. But, to accomplish this I need to keep each part as its own layer (not path). 

 

Problem Statment:

My original artwork is SVG, which I can import into Illustrator (web) but... they are remain grouped, insetad of being spearated into individual layers.

As a work around - I am manually creating new blank layer and move each object from the SVG into a layer.

 

Cumbersome.

 

New Feature Request:

  • I found that in desktop version of Illustrator, there is automatic conversion , when I import SVG and then in layers panel use the 'Release to layers' (build) or (sequence) https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/layers.html . I'd like to see this option also implemented in the web version of Illustrator..

1 reply

Jess Telmanik
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 14, 2025

Hi @Tania orange, I agree this would be a beneficial feature Hopefully, the Illustrator Web team will be able to add it in the future, and thank you so much for sharing your workaround!