Local refinement complains about binary mask

Local Refinement
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Local refinement immediately terminates with error

“RuntimeError: Binary mask detected. Local refinement must be run with a soft mask. Please use Volume Tools to give the mask a soft padded edge, prior to running local refinement.”

The mask is a soft mask with 9A fallof soft padding generated in Chimera.

Using Volume Tools as suggested yields the same error.

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Hi @cle,

If you see this warning then it is likely that the input mask is indeed binary. All masks that are hand-made should be passed through Volume Tools with a nonzero “Soft padding width”. To help us troubleshoot, can you specify exactly which parameters were set in the Volume Tools job that still produced this downstream error?

Michael

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Hi Michael,

thanks for the Tip! giving a nonzero value for “Soft padding width” solved the problem.

Best,
clemens