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Export CSV on a product gives you the whole model as one flat file — every bill-of-materials line, nested to any depth, one row each. It’s the artifact you hand to a verifier, so it’s worth knowing exactly what its numbers measure. The short version: the file is scaled to the product, and the model page is scaled to the parent line. Both surfaces use the same words for those two bases, so a file number that looks wrong is usually the same number on a different basis.

The file reports one declared unit of the product

Every Input_Quantity, Input_Weight and Input_kgCO2e in the file is what one declared unit of the product you exported consumes or emits. A nested row is multiplied through every line above it — each ancestor contributes the number of its own source element’s declared units that the line consumes. The model page does the opposite, deliberately. A row there shows the quantity as you entered it on its parent, because a bill-of-materials line is edited in its parent’s terms (“this frame takes four legs”). That’s the number you need while modeling; the file’s is the number you need when reporting. Level tells you which basis a row is on. Level 1 is a top-level line of the exported product, and every step deeper adds one. On a Level 1 row the two surfaces agree, because there’s nothing above it to multiply through.

A worked example

A factory model takes 6.05 kg of an element that is itself a model, declared per kg. Two of that element’s own lines: Every figure here is right. Multiply an Input_Quantity on the page by the quantity on each line above it and you land on the file’s. Input_Weight is the one column that won’t always reconcile that way. The file derives every line’s weight from its quantity and its source element’s weight, while the model page shows a weight recorded on the line itself whenever there is one. Where those two disagree, the gap is the recorded weight, not the basis.
Don’t total a page figure together with a file figure. A sum built from both bases means nothing. Pick one surface per calculation.