Abstract: Building information modeling (BIM) is a new technology in architecture field and wildly
used in Europe and USA by its low cost, high efficiency, visualization and data sharing. To apply BIM
is accelerate in China Construction Department “Twelfth Five Year Plan”. According to the BIM
talent gap problem with cutting-edge technologies, civil drawing course including manual drawing,
AutoCAD and BIM are given by Harbin Industrial University. Two rounds of teaching results show
that the introduction of three-dimensional teaching is conducive to improve students’ ability to read
civil drawings and also stimulate students' interest in active learning.

Key words: building information modeling, civil drawing, active learning