The cooperation instruction is an effective approach to improve teaching status of civil engineering in the area-application-oriented university, promote learning interest, and enhance the training quality. The teaching status in the area-application-oriented university is summarized and analyzed from the standpoint of teacher, student and enterprise by investigate in the subject research. The concept of drawings-based cooperation instruction is presented, which takes drawings as the core and constructs a new teaching method that complies with the direction and orientation of professional development and is beneficial to the cultivation of applied talents. The value core and the value goal are summarized, the approach to application of drawings-based cooperation instruction is explored.