diff --git a/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/mod.rs b/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/mod.rs
index 3d0b26f4..a888ea70 100644
--- a/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/mod.rs
+++ b/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/mod.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ pub mod factory;
 pub mod indexing;
 pub mod nditer;
 pub mod shape_util;
+pub mod view;
 
 /// Fields of [`NDArray`]
 pub struct NDArrayFields<'ctx, F: FieldTraversal<'ctx>> {
diff --git a/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/view.rs b/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/view.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8afd5b4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nac3core/src/codegen/object/ndarray/view.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+use super::{indexing::RustNDIndex, NDArrayObject};
+use crate::codegen::{CodeGenContext, CodeGenerator};
+
+impl<'ctx> NDArrayObject<'ctx> {
+    /// Make sure the ndarray is at least `ndmin`-dimensional.
+    ///
+    /// If this ndarray's `ndims` is less than `ndmin`, a view is created on this with 1s prepended to the shape.
+    /// If this ndarray's `ndims` is not less than `ndmin`, this function does nothing and return this ndarray.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn atleast_nd<G: CodeGenerator + ?Sized>(
+        &self,
+        generator: &mut G,
+        ctx: &mut CodeGenContext<'ctx, '_>,
+        ndmin: u64,
+    ) -> Self {
+        if self.ndims < ndmin {
+            // Extend the dimensions with np.newaxis.
+            let mut indices = vec![];
+            for _ in self.ndims..ndmin {
+                indices.push(RustNDIndex::NewAxis);
+            }
+            indices.push(RustNDIndex::Ellipsis);
+            self.index(generator, ctx, &indices)
+        } else {
+            *self
+        }
+    }
+}