Research on the Teaching of Configuration Design in Engineering Graphics

In engineering design, as the main media to define, express and convey product information in conception, design, and manufacture, engineering graphics play an extremely important role in technical and management work. Following the basic requirements of engineering graphics course teaching, configuration design is a teaching activity of conceiving and describing the plane figures, three-dimensional structure, part structure and component structure, etc. Through the configuration design training, it can deepen students' understanding and mastering the teaching contents, and further cultivate their ability to visualize innovative thinking. In this paper, the necessity of the teaching of configuration design in engineering graphics is analyzed, the basic ideas of the teaching of configuration design are introduced, and the main forms that can be adopted in the configuration design training are given, including configuration design based on geometric elements, shape configuration design based on one view, two views as well as three views and configuration design of chimeric shape based on given shape, etc.