《机械制图》是机电类专业的主要基础课,也是职业学校机电专业新生入学后接触到的第一门专业课程。该课程的两大任务是绘图和读图,而它们都离不开空间想象,如何培养学生的空间想象力成了我们在教学过程中遇到的最大难题。本文结合《机械制图》课的教学实际,从采用经典模型入手,探究如何培养学生的空间想象力。 “Mechanical Drawing” is a major basic course for electromechanical majors and also the first specialized course that new mechanics and majors in vocational schools have access to after entering the program. The two major tasks of this course are drawing and reading pictures, and they are inseparable from the space imagination, how to cultivate students’ space imagination became the biggest problem we encountered in the teaching process. Based on the teaching practice of “Mechanical Drawing”, this article starts with the adoption of classic model and explores how to cultivate students’ space imagination.