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Unfortunately I don't work with data from the U.S. myself but from the quick reading I've done it seems like Albers equal-area conic projection is the typical choice for mapping the lower 48 states. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albers_projection
Just as an update: I needed to clean up another CAD file today and was able to use this solution. It worked exactly as expected, huge time saver. Thanks again yanes.