Hi all! 
I’m brand new to creating my own patterns. I want to make a button down shirt with short sleeves. I put all the measurements into the Simon pattern. I figured how how to shorten the sleeve. How do I remove the cuff and sleeve placket? Or can I even remove them from my pattern?
TIA!
Unfortunately, Simon currently doesn’t have cuffless/placketless short sleeves as a design option, so you won’t be able to generate a pattern for that type of sleeve. For now, you’ll have to manually modify the pattern after it is generated. Sorry for the inconvenience.
There is a person actively working on adding a short-sleeve option to Simon, but it might be some time before it is available on the freesewing.eu site. You can read about their efforts in this thread on the FreeSewing Discord server. The thread has some pictures showing what the sleeve pattern might look like.
https://discord.com/channels/698854858052075530/1380966434590560354/1380966519424684072
discord://discord.com/channels/698854858052075530/1380966434590560354/1380966519424684072
There is an “Only include selected parts” setting in the menu (if your user experience is set high enough), you can use that to only include selected parts. But it’s kinda an advanced setting, as as @Benjamin_F wrote, we’re working on a better way.
Just don’t use them.