CIRCLY 5.0
Release History
CIRCLY 5.0s (25 October 2011)
released 25 October 2011.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of some support issues.
CIRCLY 5.0s (4 August 2011)
released 4 August 2011.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of some support issues.
CIRCLY 5.0s (30 May 2011)
released 30 May 2011.
Bug Fixes
- The Austroads performance parameter, k, for Cement Material with
modulus 10,000MPa was incorrectly set to .000240.
The database is now automatically updated to the correct value, .000260.
Thanks for Graham Foley for pointing out the error.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of some support issues.
CIRCLY 5.0r (1 July 2010)
released 1 July 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of some support issues.
CIRCLY 5.0r (1 July 2010)
released 1 July 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of some support issues.
CIRCLY 5.0r (16 March 2010)
released 16 March 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages for Hardware Lock and Software Licence Key issues.
CIRCLY 5.0r (5 February 2010)
released 5 February 2010.
Bug Fixes
- some 2D graphs were not plotted correctly on Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2003
- graphs for jobs with a Problem Title that was longer than 79 characters were corrupt
CIRCLY 5.0q (4 February 2010)
released 4 February 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- some minor fixes
CIRCLY 5.0q (2 February 2010)
released 2 February 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- fixed bug: inconsistent use of Red colour for CDF values for Regions that use number format like 1,61 (1.61 for Region=English).
CIRCLY 5.0q (28 January 2010)
released 28 January 2010.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages for Hardware Lock and Software Licence Key issues.
CIRCLY 5.0q (26 October 2009)
released 26 October 2009.
Bug Fix:
- fixed a fatal execution bug for Hardware Lock with Annual Licence.
CIRCLY 5.0q (14 October 2009)
released 14 October 2009.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages for Hardware Lock issues.
CIRCLY 5.0q (13 October 2009)
released 13 October 2009.
Major new feature
- support for Microsoft Windows 7.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error checking.
CIRCLY 5.0p (8 July 2009)
released 8 July 2009.
Bug Fix
- On some PC Systems, attempting to run an analysis with CIRCLY 5.0n
(12 or 24 February 2009) would give the following errors: "Error
encountered while trying to open file.", followed by "ERROR 62
occurred". No results were generated.
(this bug was not in versions earlier than CIRCLY 5.0n).
CIRCLY 5.0n (24 February 2009)
released 24 February 2009.
Configuration Fix
- fixed configuration bug introduced with CIRCLY 5.0n (12 February
2009):
this would have only affected new installations - data files were not installed in the correct location - CIRCLY would give error The specified data path does not exist or does not contain any files.
CIRCLY 5.0n (12 February 2009)
released 12 February 2009.
Major improvement
- new technology used for Numerical Engine
(note: due to round off differences some results will be different from previous versions).
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error checking.
CIRCLY 5.0m (21 January 2009)
released 21 January 2009.
Minor fixes and improvements
- Bug Fixed:
Attempt to enter Licence Activation Key fails with message "Licence Activation Key is out of date".
CIRCLY 5.0m (4 June 2008)
released 4 June 2008.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages for various configuration issues.
CIRCLY 5.0m (22 April 2008)
released 22 April 2008.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages for Hardware Lock issues and Software Licence Key issues.
CIRCLY 5.0k (26 February 2008)
released 26 February 2008.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved error messages.
CIRCLY 5.0j (23 October 2007)
released 23 October 2007.
Minor bug fixes
- when switching on Automatic Thickness Design, more than one layer could be highlighted
- when using Automatic Thickness Design, Subgrade could be highlighted
- when using Automatic Thickness Design, clicking anywhere apart from Selector may not change highlighting
- could not enter Licence Activation key if no other programs activated on Hardware Lock
- now popup message "Warning Number: 9201 - Sentinel has not been activated to run Version 4.1 or greater" from CIRCLY front-end
CIRCLY 5.0j (28 August 2007)
released 28 August 2007.
Minor bug fixes
- Fix for "No current record" error when there were no z-values using "Calculating Selected Results at User-defined Z-values (depths)" Option.
- Fix for bug - if cursor was in the CDF cell, it was not updated after running Analysis (it would be updated if the cursor moved off that cell).
CIRCLY 5.0j (30 March 2007)
released 30 March 2007.
Major new feature
- support for Microsoft Vista.
CIRCLY 5.0i (10 October 2006)
released 10 October 2006.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of Licence Expiry dates.
Bug fix
- fixed bug introduced in CIRCLY 5.0i (7 July 2006) - data introduced during conversion of CIRCLY 4.0 databases would be incorrect.
CIRCLY 5.0i (7 July 2006)
released 7 July 2006.
Major bug fix
This update fixes an issue with all versions of CIRCLY 5.0 prior to Version 5.0i (7 July 2006).
Referring to the captions on the screen dump below, the combo box (1) that lets you select the Traffic Spectrum does not function as expected. If you click on the combo box and select a different Traffic Spectrum, the Traffic Multipliers (2) that you see on the screen do not change to the values originally entered for the newly selected Traffic Spectrum.
The analysis feature is functioning correctly. If you run an analysis, the Traffic Multipliers that are used will be the ones previously entered for the the newly selected Traffic Spectrum, or whatever values you have just entered.
If you are in doubt about values of the Traffic Multipliers used in a particular analysis, refer to the Job Summary file (accessed via the menu item Analysis/View Job Summary File).

CIRCLY 5.0h (5 December 2005)
released 5 December 2005.
Minor fixes and improvements
- improved handling of Licence Details.
- upgrade from CIRCLY 3.0 or 4.0 can be activated directly from CIRCLY 5.0.
CIRCLY 5.0g (24 November 2005)
released 24 November 2005.
Minor fixes and improvements
- fixed bug: if Project Reliability was changed, the new Job Summary File used the old Project Reliability Title.
CIRCLY 5.0g (27 October 2005)
released 27 October 2005.
Major bug fix
- improved error checking.
- replaced custom File Open/Recent Files dialog by standard Common Dialog.
- implemented Recently Used Files in File Menu.
- fixed bug: fatal error if "&" in the folder path name.
- fixed fatal bug: - when Project Reliability is used and a Performance criterion is used for a Generic Material Type (e.g "Granular") that does not have Reliability Factors.
- improved formatting of Reliability Factors in Job Summary File.
CIRCLY 5.0f (29 June 2005)
released 29 June 2005.
Bug fix
- There was a bug in version 5.0f (27 June 2005) that prevented the CIRCLY engine (CIRCLY32.exe) from reading data files that were in the Version 2.0 (1977) format.
CIRCLY 5.0f (27 June 2005)
released 28 June 2005.
Major bug fix
- Since Friday, 24 June 2005 there was a serious date related bug that made it difficult to use CIRCLY 5.0 with a Hardware Lock. The symptoms were that you were asked to enter your Licence Type (didn't use to ask), then on inputting "Full licence", Warning Number: 9201 ("Sentinel has not been activated to run Version 4.1 or greater") is displayed. These messages would not prevent you from running analyses, unless you were using the thickness design option.
CIRCLY 5.0e (11 April 2005)
released 11 April 2005.
Minor fixes and improvements
- fixed Printer issues
CIRCLY 5.0d (18 January 2005)
released 18 January 2005.
Minor fixes and improvements
- added Project Reliability information to Job Summary file
- improved display of Performance constant in Material Performance screen
- fixed display of "&" character in User Details displayed in About screen
- fixed overflow problem for large number of loads
- removed spurious nulls from .clo file