The workstation idea only really works if the iPad can reach the one machine that still has everything else on it: your Mac. So Lectra now includes a remote desktop. Pair it with a small companion Mac app, and your Mac's screen shows up live on your iPad, wherever you are, the full desktop and not a stripped-down mirror.
Under the hood it works the way a video call does: a direct peer-to-peer connection carries the screen as live video, and the quality adapts on the fly to whatever your connection can handle, so it stays smooth instead of freezing. Your touches, keyboard, and typing travel back over the same connection, and you can move files across it too. If the Mac is asleep, Lectra can wake it first.
The point isn't to replace your laptop. It's that the one file, the one app, the one thing stuck on your Mac stops being a reason to go find it. You read and annotate on the iPad, and when you need the real machine, it's a tap away.