@DaveTwyman ,

There are two potential work arounds here.

1. Use the create_component method
2. In case that you want an actual intuitive method with the name of the component you can create a wrapper

Based on the ETK you can create an instance of MaxwellCircuit (although, I'd rather go through Maxwell3D)

        app = MaxwellCircuit(design="circuit_" + design_name)
        schematic = app.modeler.schematic

Let us create variables for schematics location=[0,0] and page number: 4

page = 4 
x = 0 
y = 0

Case (1) you can create a Voltage source as follows

    component_name = schematic.create_component(
                component_library="Sources",
                component_name="VSin",
                location=[x, y],
                angle=-90,
                page=("Page{}".format(page))
            )

in case (2) you could just wrap case (1) so that assigning the voltage source looks like

def create_voltage_source(location, page):
    schematic.create_component(
                component_library="Sources",
                component_name="VSin",
                location=[x, y],
                angle=-90,
                page=("Page{}".format(page))
            )

We could become even more creative and create a simple source that includes both voltage/current sources

def create_source(type=VSin, location, page):
    schematic.create_component(
                component_library="Sources",
                component_name=type,
                location=[x, y],
                angle=-90,
                page=("Page{}".format(page))
            )

Note that this method in addition to PR #5712 , should be enough to handle this issue. Maybe we can reconsider PR #5283