Computer aided design (CAD) is an important technical course for urban planning education (UPE) in universities and colleges. Its main target is to help students majored in urban planning gain professional skills of computer drawing and designing. Based on the function and characteristics of UPE’s CAD course, the paper presents the teaching target and demands of CAD course and proposes a CAD education framework for UPE, which is constructed by teaching module, teaching content, teaching methods and practice module.