Method and device for additively manufacturing a component

A method for additively manufacturing a component, wherein the manufactured component has at least two component portions neighboring in a horizontal plane, which are adjacent to one another in at least one connection region;

• comprising the steps of:
• planning the at least one connection region (V) of the component portions adjacent to one another;
• controlling a material dispensing unit (4) for depositing a building material;
• and
• controlling an actuator assembly (5) which is designed to move the material dispensing unit (4) over a work surface (6) in order to deposit the building material layer by layer in predetermined print paths,
• wherein first at least two print path layers, layered on top of one another, of a first of the at least two component portions adjacent to one another and then at least one print path layer of a second of the at least two component portions adjacent to one another are deposited;
• wherein the connection region is planned in such a way that the at least one print path layer of the second component portion in the at least one connection region has a print path portion which can be deposited by the material dispensing unit adjacently to a print path portion of a corresponding print path layer of the first component portion so that the corresponding print path layers of the at least two component portions can be adjacent to one another in the at least one connection region, and
• wherein, according to the planning of the at least one connection region, at least one upper print path portion and at least one lower print path portion of the at least two print path layers, layered on top of one another, of the first component portion are layered on top of one another with a horizontal offset in such a way that a collision of the material dispensing unit with the printed print path layers of the first component portion is avoided when printing the at least one print path layer of the second component portion.