Encounter Issue: sroute cannot connect two power pins

[mhaghaed]

I am doing a P&R with two custom LEF files. Both these LEF files have a special power pin called MYPOWER that are connected in the encounter as follows:

globalNetConnect MYPOWER -type pgpin -pin MYPOWER -inst INST1
globalNetConnect MYPOWER -type pgpin -pin MYPOWER -inst INST2
applyGolobalNets

What I'm trying to do is to connect these two pins with sroute:
sroute -nets {MYPOWER}

However, encounter complains that:
"WARN: Net MYPOWER does not have block pins to be routed".

How can I tell encounter that MYPOWER is a "block pin"?

 

[rca]

can you show us the section of the LEF file that describe this pin?

 

[mhaghaed]

I made a pad ring around each blocks to make it simpler for sroute to connect to. It didn't work though.

After giving up with sroute, I decided to connect the two pins using addStripe instead. However, the stripes don't connect to the rings even though the LEFs don't have any obstruction on any layer above or below the pin layers(and obviously on the pin layer).

Here is the command I used:
addStripe -nets {MYPOWER} -width 0.4 -layer METAL4 -set_to_set_distance 40 -spacing 10 -switch_layer_over_obs 1 -extend_to_design_boundry