The invention discloses a preheating and insulation device for laser selective melting forming. Compared with existing laser selective melting equipment, the working environment of the preheating andinsulation device is the vacuum environment with the pressure being 10-1 Pa or above, convection in the vacuum environment is weak, heat is not liable to be dissipated, the preheating and insulation effects can be greatly improved, due to the good heat insulation performance, equipment sensitive elements are not damaged due to obvious temperature increase even though the preheating temperature ishigh, and the preheating temperature of the laser selective melting equipment can be greatly increased; a single laser is used as a light source, conversion of preheating scanning and forming scanningis achieved through moving of a focus lens, and the better economical efficiency is achieved compared with the mode that two lasers are used (one of the two lasers is used for preheating scanning, and the other laser is used for forming scanning); and compared with electron beam selective melting equipment, the laser selective melting equipment is especially suitable for forming magnetic or non-conducting materials, finer powder can be used, the part forming precision is higher, and the market prospects are broad.