Change Release Notes
This latest release of ARC has a pretty big change. We have upgraded to Visual Studio 2013 and a bunch of things have changed from VS 2010. Let me know if you have any installation issues...
Warning: This is a very beta installer. Only upgrade to this version if you are volunteering to help debug the installation issues
*Note: You must uninstall the previous ARC version before installing this
- Visit Control Panel
- select Programs and Features
- Select ARC in the list and uninstall
- Reboot
- Install the latest version
Updated GUI with flat buttons
Connection control has Scan and Web config buttons for EZ-B v4
ARC Downloads
ARC Free
Free
- Includes one free 3rd party plugin robot skill per project
- Trial cloud services
- Free with trial limitations
For schools, personal use & organizations. This edition is updated every 6-12 months.
ARC Pro
Only $8.99/mo
- 2 or more PCs simultaneously
- Includes unlimited skills
- Cloud backup
- And much more
Experience the latest features and bug fixes weekly. A Pro subscription is required to use this edition.
Runtime
Free
- Load and run any ARC project
- Operates in read-only mode
- Unlimited robot skills
- Early access fixes & features
Have you finished programming your robot? Use this to run existing ARC projects for free*.
- Minimum requirements are Windows 10 or higher with 2+gb ram and 500+MB free space.
- Recommended requirements are Windows 10 or higher with 8+gb ram and 1000+MB free space.
- ARC Free known-issues can be viewed by clicking here.
- Get more information about each ARC edition by clicking here.
- See what's new in the latest versions with Release notes.
Compare Editions
| Feature | ARC FREE |
ARC PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans | |
| Usage | Personal DIY Education |
Personal DIY Education Business |
| Early access to new features & fixes | Yes | |
| Simultaneous microcontroller connections* | 1 | 255 |
| Robot skills* | 20 | Unlimited |
| Skill Store plugins* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Cognitive services usage** | 10/day | 6,000/day |
| Auto-positions gait actions* | 40 | Unlimited |
| Speech recongition phrases* | 10 | Unlimited |
| Camera devices* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Vision resolution | max 320x240 | Unlimited |
| Interface builder* | 2 | Unlimited |
| Cloud project size | 128 MB | |
| Cloud project revision history | Yes | |
| Create Exosphere requests | 50/month | |
| Exosphere API access | Contact Us | |
| Volume license discounts | Contact Us | |
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans |
** 1,000 per cognitive type (vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection, azure text to speech)
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@Robot-Doc question do you have ms office 2010 installed? @DJ question no ms office?
j
jdebay I have a license for MS Office 2003 and that's what is installed on this machine, Win-7 32 bit. Also installed Windows update for .net 4.5.1
@Robot-Doc the reason I asked was I have ms visual studio 10. installed. And I think that installed with office 2010. j
I do have Visual Studio 2012 installed as well as VS 2012 Express.
@DJ Sures... It is installing, I just can not read current projects. I can make a new project and test it, but unable to save it. I have ms visual 10 install. I notice @Rich does not and all is fine with him. I can send install.log if that will help? j
The installer is not installing the dependency files. I have isolated the issue - now I need to resolve it.
I'm confused of why Microsoft would have removed the Setup and Deployment feature from Visual Studio 2013. Install Shield is really buggy, bloated and has a confusing setup process. After doing some google searches, it seems there are countless number of people who are upset at Microsoft for removing that feature...
We will get through this guys!
@DJ Sures that is great news. I am here to install the latest, you are the man.
j
I have always (back as far as vb5) preferred MS Deployment over Installshield even when I had access to an enterprise license of Installshield. The MS tool was simple and effective. Tbe only Installshield feature I thought had any value was the ability to have it pull missing components from a local or Internet server rather than including them in my distribution package, so my packages could be smaller. But, that required Internet acess during the installation and caused problems for some of my enterprise customers, so I wound up always including the components anyway.
Alan