To be honest with you I'm the driving force behind whatever goes on. The teacher that is meant to be helping us with this is utterly amazed at what I can do with SolidWorks and he's taking night classes for it!
I think the weight requirement for it is 55g and at the moment I have no idea of what this weighs!
With the holes thing I think theres a rule that says all features have to be visible in all views to stop us doing that!