Patent ID: 7562317

Claim:
A multitasking circuit layout diagram silkscreen text handling method for use with a computer platform for providing a silkscreen text handling function to a circuit layout diagram, which comprises: responding to a user-operated circuit shape creating event by creating a circuit shape with a set of user-defined silkscreen layout attributes by a computer; responding to a user-operated silkscreen data defining event by defining a silkscreen text file for the associated silkscreen of each created circuit shape by said computer; responding to a user-operated circuit shape importing event by importing each circuit shape into the circuit layout diagram by said computer; and responding to a user-operated silkscreen data importing event by importing the silkscreen text file associated with the imported circuit shape into the circuit layout diagram, and then finding the circuit shape that is associated with the imported silkscreen text file and pasting the imported silkscreen text on the circuit layout diagram in a manner according to the predefined silkscreen layout attributes of the circuit shape by said computer.