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DRC Violations due to Macro Placement and Power Straps in Innovus Stylus Flow

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I have a working Genus + Innovus Stylus 21.1 for a design. But now, instead of flattening everything, I need to turn one of the modules into a macro and place it in my top level.

I limit macro's top layer to be M5, with a pair of horizontal on M4 and a pair of veritcal straps on M3, all with pg pins.

In the original top-level flow, there are power straps on M2, M3, and M4 layers, and I didn't change it.

I placed the macros using:

    set_db $inst .location [list $x $y]
    set_db $inst .orient R0
    set_db $inst .place_status fixed
The problem is that there are many SHORT and SPACING DRC violations at the power straps of top level.
This is the placement view diagram.
This is the DRC report.
What could be causing the problem and how should I resolve it?
Here are the several directions I was thinking about:
1. Adjust power strap layers of either macro or top-level (my attempts caused some errors)
2. Add blockages around macros (not sure which command to use in the stylus flow, I used setobjfplanbox in a non-stylus flow which didn't have any problem, but it doesn't exist in stylus)
2. Aligning power strap in macros with top-level power straps, or increasing spacing between top-level power straps to leave room for macros (but it is unpractical if I need to place more macros.
Could any please point me to the right direction? And some classic example scripts or flow or implementation would be perfect. Thank you

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