The InnoHatch project is being carried out in cooperation between AMSIS GmbH and the Leibniz Institute for Materials-oriented Technologies for the further development of additive manufacturing. The project is supported by the European Union from the fund “Investment in Bremen’s Future – European Regional Development Fund”. The general objective is to greatly reduce the necessary support structures in powder bed-based laser beam melting by developing a reliable simulation-based method for automatic component-specific adaptation of the hatching strategies. On the basis of the simulation-based development, experimental evidence for the structure of the components with a complex 3D geometry with overhang angles of up to 20° is to be provided.