Axiom menu basics

What displays on your Axiom menu is determined by the contents of a simple text file named aximenu.cfg. The aximenu.cfg can be modified in various ways to customize your Axiom menu, but in this article, we’ll show how to add a menu item that loads a Windows application.
The default location for the aximenu.cfg is C:\Program Files (x86}\Axiom\V8\aximenu\

Load a Windows application from your Axiom menu

Below is an example section of the aximenu.cfg file and the resulting Axiom menu.

Notice that for every product displayed in the menu on the right there are two lines driving it from the aximenu.cfg file shown on the left.

• The # at the beginning of the first line specifies the text that will appear on the Axiom menu. Effectively, this is your label.
• The line immediately following the line that starts with the “#”, defines the application to be loaded when you select the item from the menu.

The example above shows how to define a menu item that loads a MicroStation application. Loading a Windows application is done very similarly, in that there is a label line and then a line to load the product.
There are two key differences:

1. On the line that specifies the application to load, you must precede the path to your executable with WIN:. The WIN: prefix tells the Axiom menu that the target is a Windows executable rather than a MicroStation application.
2. When loading a Windows executable, you’ll need to define the path to the executable.

For example, if you wanted the menu to display “Chicken” and you wanted to load “chicken.exe”, in aximenu.cfg it would look like this:

(Where the “Chicken.exe” is stored in “C:\Program Files\Poultry\”.)

Remember to save your changes to aximenu.cfg, and restart MicroStation to see the changes.