Method for the layered construction of a shaped body defined by geometry description data, dispensing with a process step containing slicing by melting and depositing fusible wire-like material in individual material webs, each of the layers to be built-up being formed by depositing the molten material into one or more material webs deposited next to one another is, using a database in which target process parameters for the deposition of the material webs are stored, comprising the following method steps: (a) dividing the shaped article to be manufactured into individual substructures, the dividing into substructures taking place in such a way that a multiplicity of these substructures is already known on the basis of a target process parameter entry in the database; (b) successive build-up of the shaped article from the substructures, wherein unknown substructures are generated in the database, in that (c) target process parameters are generated by means of a control unit using the geometry description data for the unknown substructure and other input parameters; (d) a material web of the unknown substructure is deposited using target process parameters; (e) a geometric extension of the deposited material web is measured and the measured geometric extension is compared with the geometry description data for the purpose of determining which areas of the material web lie within the shaped article defined by the geometry description data; (f) on the basis of the geometric deviations of the deposited material from the geometry description data and the actual process parameters used for depositing the material web, target process parameters for the substructure just produced are stored in the database, with the target process parameters being adapted in this way be that the geometric deviation of the material web to be deposited is reduced from the geometry description data; (g) repeating steps (d) through (f) to built-up and learn the unknown substructure. (a) dividing the shaped article to be manufactured into individual substructures, the dividing into substructures taking place in such a way that a multiplicity of these substructures is already known on the basis of a target process parameter entry in the database; (b) successive build-up of the shaped article from the substructures, wherein unknown substructures are generated in the database, in that (c) target process parameters are generated by means of a control unit using the geometry description data for the unknown substructure and other input parameters; (d) a material web of the unknown substructure is deposited using target process parameters; (e) a geometric extension of the deposited material web is measured and the measured geometric extension is compared with the geometry description data for the purpose of determining which areas of the material web lie within the shaped article defined by the geometry description data; (f) on the basis of the geometric deviations of the deposited material from the geometry description data and the actual process parameters used for depositing the material web, target process parameters for the substructure just produced are stored in the database, with the target process parameters being adapted in this way be that the geometric deviation of the material web to be deposited is reduced from the geometry description data; (g) repeating steps (d) through (f) to built-up and learn the unknown substructure. <EOS>