Beam Non-typical Beam Joins

[PhilvK]

I have a condition where I need to have some short 4x4s connect to other 4x4s perpendicular to the short ones, and at different heights. I used reference plans (highlighted below) and ‘cut geometry’ to get the shorter members to frame cleanly to the sides of the longer ones. Is there an easier way? I tried doing this with ‘beam joins’, but that didn’t seem to work. Thank you. Illustrations of this are below.3DElevation

[barthbradley]

What are you wanting to do?  Want do you mean by "cleanly" join?  

[PhilvK]

I would like the sloping members to fit flush to the sides of the horizontals ones as shown in the 2 sketches in my original post. Without cutting the geometry, I get gaps between the members as shown below.

[barthbradley]

Well then, you need a beam family that is shaped that way.  

[ToanDN]

What you did is a clever way to deal with it.

[ToanDN]

You can also use Opening by face tool to trim the beams.

[PhilvK]

Thank you both. I'll need to look at how to get a beam shaped that way, and how Opening By Face works.