This paper briefly analyzes the common problems of the environment art design specialty in the course of setting up the courseof the specialty of environmental art and design in CAD. According to the common problems in the teaching process, we put forward the ideaof teaching design based on the application practice. CAD course is an important course of environmental art design major, should meet theprofessional characteristics of the organization of teaching content in the course teaching, knowledge using a variety of teaching methods andteaching, pay attention to the knowledge consistency.