Lectra Modaris

Lectra is an absolute behemoth in the high-end apparel manufacturing space, particularly in Europe. Modaris is their flagship pattern making, grading, and 3D prototyping software. It is notoriously expensive and complex, but it is heavily utilized by luxury fashion houses (like Louis Vuitton and Hermes) and massive fast-fashion conglomerates (like H&M) due to its unparalleled precision. Modaris excels in complex grading. When a luxury brand designs a highly structured blazer, simply scaling the pattern up by 10% for a larger size ruins the tailored fit. Modaris allows technical designers to apply highly complex, non-linear grading rules to ensure that the armhole drapes perfectly on a size 4 and a size 14, maintaining the brand's signature fit across the entire sizing spectrum. Lectra is also a massive hardware manufacturer. Modaris integrates natively with Lectra's massive automated fabric cutting machines (Vector). A pattern maker in Paris can finalize a 2D marker in Modaris and send the file directly to a Lectra cutting machine in a factory in Morocco. The machine will use a laser-guided blade to cut through fifty layers of denim simultaneously, with the software optimizing the blade path to save fractions of a second on every cut.