Last option is to take a digital pic of a piece of wide balsa plank and do the deal into turning that into a graphic and running through a raster/vector conversion utility to get a dxf and then putting that into your drawing as a BLOCK. The only issue with AutoCad is that you can't use curved lines in hatch's but I'll bet you could come up with something fun. Or else have some fun and make up your own hatch.
It's almost perfect for an end grain look.įor face grain, I would either use one of the ANSI hatch's (131 through 136) and play around with scales to see if that gives you what you like. So I would suggest that, for end grain, use the AR.SAND hatch and scale it until you like what you see. You've already noted that the hatch's that come with AutoCad are many but none really look much like face grain balsa or any kind of wood for that matter.
It's too easy to simply add a text label in relevant locations and point to the part with a leader.
All they do is make the whole drawing look busier and less clear. I generally don't add hatch's to my drawings because they don't really add much in understanding of the materials.