# Dynamically break apart a graphic?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamically-break-apart-a-graphic/165419>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 11, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamically-break-apart-a-graphic/165419 "2005-10-11T00:31:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![RoboLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@RoboLlama](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RoboLlama)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamically-break-apart-a-graphic/165419/1 "2005-10-11T00:31:11Z")

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I’m trying to break apart a SWF vector graphic that has multiple sub-graphics grouped within it.

I know I can do this by right clicking it and selecting “Break Apart”, but is there any way to do this with actionscript, and then dynamically asign each part to a variable name so that I can manipulate each part seperately?

Thanks