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Ahhh the days of being in School. I almost attended the U of U but decided to stay put in Montana. I then ended up living and working for an Aerospace company down in Salt lake for two years.
Since I was once in your shoes and understand your excitement to learn 3-d modeling. I can tell you there is a lot cooler things to design and analyze than a seat rail! But if you want, most aftermarket seat mounts are simply bent tabs of metal ( a 5-second job on solidworks). Your stock seats are more complicated and would be a fun project for solidworks, but I would think you would want to tear them apart to get all the details correct.
Solidworks has a sheetmetal function built right into it so you can build parts and them unfold them flat so you can see what your raw materials would look like. Seat rails are however not sheet metal.
My two cents, start simple and work your way up... design an aluminum shift knob and then go use the lathe.
Have fun, if you need help I will be glad to share my thoughts. I used to sit and design everything on my desk while I sat bored at work.
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