I love SolidWorks...

because it links in with 3dContentCentral. Anyone who does a lot of designing will tell you that if you haven't got decent backup from suppliers then you spend an inordinate amount of time reverse engineering standard components to be able to insert them into your virtual assemblies. Yesterday I was talking about designing my own hubs so as to be able to press on with the upright design. SKF have their complete bearing catalogue online within 3dContentCentral so it was a case of dragging components off-the-shelf and putting them into the design. So a quick 15 minutes (and I'm not kidding here) later, we have a nice working hub design that I can now use for reference. If all comes to the worst, I can simply get those manufactured and sold.
The hub isn't perfect yet - I haven't made the central spindle long enough to fully engage with an M20 nut; there's no dust cap for the bearings, although given the lack of usage and (hopefully) the attention to detail of most racers, it's probably not necessary; the tolerance issues haven't been ironed out (everything is a perfect sliding fit with 0.000000mm of clearance) and I'm not sure it'll be gold anodised if ever I manufacture it. Pimpy looking components do sell a car and I'm reliably informed by people with more taste (i.e. everyone) that purple is the new gold.

Still, it's something to be going on with...