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. Install Lectra for Mac on that machine, and your Mac's screen shows up live on your iPad, wherever you are, the full desktop and not a stripped-down mirror.
It works the way a video call does: your Mac's screen arrives as live video over an encrypted connection, 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 the same way, and you can send documents between the two devices as well. 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.