Trouble with sunken highways, overpasses, ramps..

[castironpigeon 1]

I'm having a lot of trouble making a city with sunken highways and I've fiddled with it for several hours so I thought I'd see if somebody else might have a good idea. I'm trying to replicate exactly what CrazyChickensc12 did in the omnibus article 'Sunken Highway On Ramps and Off Ramps.' I've gotten all the required items: Hole Digging Lots, NAM, and Buddybud's Rural Highway Walls. Here's where I run into trouble:

1. Getting the overpass to be straight. I tried using hole diggers to get the depth correct, but invariably one or another of the puzzle pieces would end up slanted and when I'd apply the highway walls it would look very odd. Eventually I gave up using hole diggers and just used the raise/lower terrain tool to do the trick, but this is very destructive and enormously time consuming. I've seen people with cities full of these overpasses, is there an easy way to do it or do you just have to tweak each one until it's right?

2. Wall pieces and ramps never seem to point in the right direction. After getting the overpass right, I couldn't get the surrounding wall pieces to point right. I eventually had to destroy the overpass and build the wall pieces first. Is there a workaround for this? Same deal with ramps, except I couldn't convince them to go to the highway no matter what I did. Is there an order I need to do these things in to get them to cooperate?

Thanks much!

[Meastro444 1]

hi

[castironpigeon 1]

Wow, simple and effective. It worked! Thanks!

[Meastro444 1]

no problem

Meastro444

[smstevenms 7]

Meastro444, maybe you can me with my situation. I can't seem to get the nam overpasses to go across flat. It rises the land every time I try (trying to create these wonderful sunken hwys but can't make wonderful).