Hi Rick
I understand what you are saying about cover fills defaulting to Bitmap and I agree with you entirely on the usefulness of these fills. In fact even since ArchiCAD 4.55 I have
never
used bitmap fills - I just couldn't bring myself to do it. IMHO, if you need to resort to bitmap fills to increase speed, then it is time for a new computer!!
I can't understand why anyone would choose to skimp on their hardware, when it is the
main tool of their trade. It's kinda self-destructive! And as a wise ol' carpenter who converted to ArchiCAD once told me - it's not like you have to buy a new tool for every different task! We need very few tools, relative to other professions! Anyway....
Having said that, I think you are making this task much harder than it needs to be. There is no need to redefine all of your views. Just like layer combinations, these display options are 'mapped' to each view. So instead of redefining each view (which you don't have to do one by one anyway*), you can simply redefine the display options.
To do this go to Display Options and select the display option you would like to redefine from the drop down list at the top of the dialog. Next change your Cover Fills to 'Vectorial Hatching'. You will notice that the name of the view is now 'Custom' - ignore that and hit the Save As... button. In the next dialog simply retype the original name (you can usually just delete the word 'copy' *AND the preceding space*), and hit OK. A warning will appear telling you that a display option with that name already exists and would you like to replace it. Hit Replace. Do the same for any other Display Options and hit OK to confirm it all. Since those display options are mapped to the view, all of your views are now essentially 'redefined'.
* To redefine multiple views at once, open the View Editor, set the layer combinations, scale, display options, zooming 3D window settings in the left pane (& dimension settings if necessary), then select all the views in the right pane that you want to take on these settings, and hit the Redfine button at the top of the right pane, check the settings in the appearing dialog and hit Redefine. It's as easy as that - and it's important to note that this CANNOT be done by right clicking the views.
Cheers,
Link.