Inherited Connections - connecting to nets

Hi All,

I have a custom design in which (due to some reason I can't remember) I have the vdd and gnd as vdd! and gnd! (please note the exclamation!) at all levels of heirarchy. Now at the top-most level, I am connecting this vdd! a net/pin called VDDpwrDDSLL and of course, I have errors.

So, to resolve this I used the netSet property. netset vdd! = VDDpwrDDSLL but nothing changes and continues to give errors. This is affecting my cdl extraction as I am getting a failed netlist.

Apart from this I tried a couple of other things like using inherited connections, but somehow it gets messy.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,
Kashif