You're welcome. ;o)

Why didn't I make the rods hollow?...Beacuse I don't like 1 week long renders, lol.

The rods can be made hollow easy;

*Select all cylinders (using the family color)

*In Attributes, make them all positive. Apply.

*Then, ctrl+d to duplicate them.

*The duplicates will automatically be selected, best give them their own family color.

*Select the duplicates attributes and make them negative & make them smaller than what they currently are. (maybe take the XYZ down by 2 units each, for example). Apply.

*That should do it, the rods are already in groups, so the boolean should already work. (from what I remember)

NOTE;

How to simulate a Rod (or even a sphere) as hollow without doing all this booleaning??

Easy...just give whatever glass material you are using a refraction of (around) 76. (and it renders faster than booleaning)

;o)

AS

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