thanks for your reply @FEAway. Should I then continue learning from the tutorial videos and not worry about the mesh being different? Also, do you have any suggestions for books, literatures, etc I should follow?
I'm new to ABAQUS and simulations and therefore have been following youtube tutorials for learning. I do the exact things done in the videos still, when generating a mesh, my mesh comes out to be different from the video's. Why is this? Should the meshes not be same? I'll add screenshots for...