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
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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.
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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.
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| 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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Cannot load my robot file after update? I never had to agree to license before an update? I am not sure how to go back to previous version that worked on my windows 8.1 before? Can someone tell me how? I shut down, but no ARC. I had a big long error message that I could not paste here. Are things getting too complicated? I do not have MS Offiice on this PC. ARC needs a recovery option. Steve S
@Steve, ARC generally works fine after an update however in this instance, as pointed out, it is very much a beta. A "recovery mode" would be pointless to be honest.
ARC is, as always, evolving. If you have a robot that works and you are happy with it and don't plan to make any changes or updates to it then don't update the software.
If you want to roll back to the last version start by uninstalling the current one Download this version and run it.
Thank You so much Rich, You offer great help! I will try it. I wanted to do the update to take advantage of faster response mentioned in the release notes. Steve S
Steve, the update notes mention a warning that this version may cause issues. We're using the community to resolve the issues. You have no volunteered to help
I'm still actively working on a solution to find out why Install Shield won't work.
I have the merge modules all unselected, but it keeps attempting to include 64 bit merge modules even though they are all unselected. I select the 32 bit merge modules but Install Shield continues to force the 64 bit modules.
Also another bug with Install Shield is the "File Extension" is not saving the selected application.
I'm having a hard time believing that there is a world of people using Install Shield with all of these bugs i'm experiencing... mad
Now it keeps crashing when I try to change settings...
Haha, it's not all fun and games building robots! When you're at the mercy of a company who doesn't make a reliable product...
So wait. do you need VB installed? I have vb 2012. Does this change anything about installing?
No you don't need VB installed.
This has to do with 64 bit merge modules being installed for a 32 bit application. Some of you may have the correct 32 bit merge modules from the previous installation - or another software program.
Sorry DJ, I should have checked the latest release notes, just opened ARC and chose update. Thought I was downloading 12.16 version. You will get things resolved, you do awesome work! Thank you for all your work and patience. Merry Christmas to everyone @ EZ Robot. Steve S