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[Erik Kostson]

Hi

We can not answer if you are uisng the right program as we do not provide the course work of course.

In general one can use MAPDL like you tried or Workbench Mechanical (static system).

There are free courses on both these, which I would suggest taking:

https://innovationspace.ansys.com/product/get-started-with-ansys-mechanical/

https://innovationspace.ansys.com/product/getting-started-with-ansys-pymapdl/

All the best

Erik